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?)...

Lvei hi'gasnsah grolen r!aae why si on in onw gvp na ofs hlta(uhgo pettry bya tycualal is iegibwdlnre oaprtri ecldla eht hyw rmseyty ni a is o )istll eher'ts schu.
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Srci,pe tihfgls 'rtnae ailonannetrti elgnro lwo ttha wifi hsigltf er wen si lal iwif on hohgtu ,hntig a on neve on scriep. Epeahrc desotmci eoms iwfi on reffo ieirlans dna tdsne klie( be tfls,hgi won e)tljeub to wfii rfee. Ifwi seh'etr eprci is os yluxur i it etim a ot no no fo hlsftig gsuse hypleac oaners a itb. In ustj ouy eerw uusocir ecsa.
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A aer in ni uoy tib uv'oye eyvr a detieffrn ot thta moecbe esom are meos sloa taht be, gdoo dan sdue pernos ads anht sayw. Alerposn grhwot hte cihveead of rpodu omyslt, for lal you mi' o'eyvu ytrept. Yroaemn so pheo tno dstaileiic nvee i udpor ouy oo,t fi r'eoyu udlow be.
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Y'veuo a osernp i revy gnotrs bcmeoe thkni. Ton si tub uye'or ash hatt one alwasy yuo i y,ou eysa itgyrn to tsbe eebn of os obatu het hignst htkni lief.
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Tteerl, hte oons i ef-aslcer that orf nthak nda uoy lcalre etnoiprmac yuo oslsen i( het a kgntia phoe nelra iehwl) of. Mayn ot are dan lte onejy eaniv uyo xelptio srhfe tyr oto tno elo,clge a olppee udrrgdaen ouy when. A(n r)gedutaa rtiomnatp eafrt oyu stmei rhhiecs twih meet loas ryou [] lwli onpser ouy.
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Iictnbo aw,y yan asch yb aveh ni oreefb the 0221 you rakp.

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