A letter from August 4th, 2014

Time Travelled — almost 8 years

Peaceful right?

Dear FutureMe, Hello. How are you? Right now I am at SFO, or San Francisco International Airport. I'm not sure where the O from SFO comes from. In SFO time, it's 11:19 AM, but in China time, it's 2:19 AM, so I am really tired. I mean, REALLY TIRED. I think I will go have a cup of Peet's coffee in a bit or so. I find it kinda interesting that China doesn't have time zones, but at least people don't have a problem with feeling jetlagged when they travel to different parts of China. I am very jetlagged. As you can probably clearly tell. Blah blah blah BLAH BLAH ehm hem --> this reflects my mental state Um, anyway. Our flight layover is approx 6 hours, which I thought was kinda long, so I wanted to take BART into the city (or at least to somewhere more interesting). BART is really expensive, though-- $15 round trip for San Bruno, the closest stop. That's kind of ridiculous. In Shanghai, taking the subway cost about 2-4 yuan per trip, I think, and $15 USD would last you a long time on the subways. Light Rail in Denver only costs about $4 round trip, I think, so $15 is seriously overpriced. Oh also our flight to San Francisco had wifi! Not free though-- you had to pay about $17 for wifi access during the whole flight. I feel like the demand for wifi access on an airplane flight is pretty elastic, though, (considering that people are already used to not having wifi on airplane flights) so I think the price is a bit high. I'd predict that it (the price of wifi access) will drop in the next few years, though then again, as the world is becoming more dependent on the internet, the demand for internet usage on planes might increase, which would lead to increased prices. Also, there's inflation to think about. Anyway that is all my brain is capable of (semi-)coherently producing. I think I will go eat lunch. Bye bye bye bye byeeeeeee.

Epilogue

1 day later

Dear PastMe,

It's really strange to peek into the mind of myself from 8 years ago.

Speaking of SFO, it might interest you to know that I (you?)...

Levi an ywh ewiglirdnbe ni why shr'eet is no osf in a lltsi) own egolnr ellcad o rtoipar is vpg yyertsm ytretp alulycat yba is eth laohghut( a!are uhsc anhgi'hssa.
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Iwfi atht lgroen thhugo a er eenv on lla wlo tinnlieaotran si on sipre,c fislght en'art on sghflti ,htnig wen esicrp iwif. Dcoimtes i(kle onw iiwf meso arpchee on fwii to offre lstifh,g refe eb iielnras nad tedsn ujb)elet. Luxryu so to iwfi eguss icepr bit a fgltsih emit si i no fo erht'es hlcyaep ti a anseor no. Ni tsju yuo suouirc esca eewr.
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A are ways vuye'o good b,e osme that rae ni tbi ospner ttah ouy dna revy htan ierffnetd saol ot dsue mbeoec dsa ni oems a. Uve'yo yl,smot hte cveihade ealrnsop wrtgoh ofr ouy lal i'm oprdu fo treypt. Luowd u'eyro not odrup i oaymnre ,oto nvee ohep if ledciasiti os ouy be.
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Nkhti i youev' a enosrp vyre otnrsg ebmeco. O,yu tesb atht nebe ureo'y feli oatbu fo tno sah tnkih slaayw neo is oyu eysa ygntri eht so stghin ot i ubt.
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Peoh nda eth amitonerpc a ouy noso eet,lrt eolssn escaelrf- of you i knath hatt gtnkai the for ehwil) i( alrne ralcel. Elt you rnageddur iltexop peopel ont iaenv nhew yrt eshrf oot uoy jyone myna eolgel,c ot a and rea. Hhecirs oasl teme (an llwi stiem itrmantop [] sprone uoy terada)ug yuo ryuo refat wthi.
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Cntiobi febroe sach rpka ywa, the avhe yan yuo 0212 in by.

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