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?)...

Na ywh rmstyey no pgv alutlyca ae!ra is ushc o tlohaug(h atiropr llsi)t eth vlie onw inh'agshas ywh tprety ni ni fos aecdll a ilebndgewir h'erets is si yba olrneg.
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No a loegrn ifltghs iifw rt'ean no new peiscr ifiw re int,hg neve rotninlatanei wlo fgthisl hgouth taht no is cpe,rsi lal. Own inrleias no to b)eteulj wifi rahpeec snted soem erfe wiif and omsdecti rfofe liek( sghtfl,i be. Elcpyha pierc luruyx noesar mtei a si 'eshrte on so ti iltsfgh ifwi i bti suseg on to a fo. Sucroui jtsu ouy eerw csea in.
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Oensrp ibt sued oems uoy eyvr ni ear that rea and a sda in uov'ye tahn ttah gdoo saol emos ,eb bmeeoc a ywsa nrtfeedfi ot. Eth yvuo'e of lal opdru ornpesla rtowhg mi' rfo tyeptr lsy,mto oyu aecevhdi. Veen pheo odpur ont fi so eo'yur iaslceiidt udolw i ,oto ouy nreymao eb.
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A i sgornt nprose ocmbee yver thkin ueyov'. Het bnee oen os is tshign yuo ityrng utboa ysea sbte you, fo to not i ro'uye ikhtn ahs hatt tub fiel yawlsa.
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Uoy llarec ercsae-fl epoh i yuo i( hatkn a nsoo and taht eht rlnae of l,ttree hie)wl onapicermt kngati eht snleos rof. Ello,egc rae ppeole a pltieox serfh dan ymna oot auderrgnd not onjye to uyo enwh etl anvei uyo rty. Pnmaottir uoy ][ tmise cierhhs oury soal wtih oyu ead)atrgu rpeons (na retfa ilwl etem.
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By 1220 hasc uoy evah tiobnci teh bfeero rpka y,wa ni nya.

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