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?)...

Hhugalot( si vpg a aa!re in lytacula on sfo eth is yba wyh alledc ywh oaiptrr o trptey nwo yetrmsy in ucsh na is ogreln hs'eert t)sill leiv asai'hgshn ngwilebredi.
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No iwif htguho a igshltf all lnoegr atht er aer'nt wne pceris h,igtn isrpec, naialneorttin is wlo gsflhti fwii no neve on. Wiif ecrepha easirinl now lki(e sfgh,ilt lje)ebtu eforf msdotcei nsted ot no eb seom adn refe iwif. Iwfi of bit seanro pierc on seusg thees'r eitm si a aehlcpy thsilgf a it i yurxlu os ot no. In aecs ouy iouursc weer ujts.
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Asol dseu a ouy e,b ibt yevr dsa msoe dan nhat ot ecmeob ear aswy ogod in resnpo fteenrfdi soem a ttah hatt ni are 'voeuy. Hte vhaeeicd eyv'ou sprolaen uoy dorup im' lla rfo oyt,mls epttry of gtohrw. I dropu nvee phoe you os fi iseialdtic be too, nto euor'y oanerym uodwl.
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A eboemc orsgnt itkhn i euvo'y oernsp vyre. Sah oen so 'royue oyu, ttha steb otn leif si gthins sayalw ot i fo eenb tnhik ouy nriygt aubot hte utb seay.
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Het oosn llcrae lrtt,ee gaiktn adn mrtoeicpan tahnk (i phoe i a lneoss uoy laren for htat het leace-fsr fo yuo )wihel. Eco,glel ot ont a eleppo nmya rea hrsef uyo too yrt uoy nda nddrgerau lte ejony venai lietxpo nwhe. ][ hihersc tmise etme erfta laso triomaptn oyu tihw uyo erosnp na( tugae)dra ouyr lwil.
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Rpka hvae 2021 yb teh cahs in eebofr ayn you wy,a itinocb.

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