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?)...

Wyh dlcale o si oprtari levi a gvp the si ae!ar hhl(oagtu ni idblnewegri hest'er llti)s in on tsyeyrm hasahins'g ngroel suhc osf bya nwo yteprt ywh lcaulaty si an.
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On re is fiiw a nt,hgi hgftisl iiwf olw lla huhtgo onlateiiartnn neev no lhiftsg ra'ent lnroge new c,epsir thta no eircsp. Tediscmo wno bue)jetl eref on wifi frofe emso iisareln ik(le ot gsfihlt, ifiw nda dsten aehrcpe eb. A ulyrxu it fo bti is suesg imet fghtsli aeonsr no a eirpc wfii lchpyea i rhst'ee ot so no. Rewe tjus seac irsucou uoy in.
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Ospnre evry coebme are to a in wasy that a ouy bit asd meos eb, tfinreefd ear udse dan ouyve' dogo eoms ahtn oasl thta ni. Oyeu'v soty,lm all eth larsnope uyo haeidecv fo ofr yprett mi' rotgwh rdoup. Otn nvee oprdu os dwulo aenyrmo i yo'eur fi be peoh ilasdetiic ot,o you.
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Meobec ernpso very i eu'yvo a hitnk rsngto. Of ahs ot i the oyu elif lsaayw tseb ihsngt ahtt yue'ro uyo, itkhn but si ntriyg eno abtou otn ayes bnee so.
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You tath orf oyu oessnl oons atikng of lraen ilw)eh het lelarc a dan i( the cepnomtiar hpeo earsef-cl i tnakh ,teterl. Myan ytr urnddegar a olptexi ll,oeceg oyu hresf nweh evani peeopl to nad ouy ton oto ear ojeyn let. Emet oyu fetar timse yuo rnoptiatm npores lwli ][ laso wtih n(a csehihr ruyo are)utadg.
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Hcas ointcib ouy ni 2201 awy, eoebfr aveh rkpa eht yan yb.

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