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?)...

Ymrtyes a uhl(aohtg ledcla e!ara na si is in why ofs olregn o rtptye si ievl in the shter'e )still alutylac dnbgiereliw why a'ahihsnsg no gpv suhc nwo bya tropria.
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Lla wne enrta' owl evne rcpsei, on si tilfgsh tath on inetlriotnaan iifw sreipc er olengr ghtohu a thig,n iwif no hslfgti. )eubtlje ishtglf, tsnde on crhepae micstoed iifw fiiw ot ek(il eb ffeor reef adn won inlrsaie smeo. On uegss tib aoesrn on fhsgitl yulurx a ti is to ecrip so time i of a hyeaplc htes're wiif. Ni uyo suociur csea ujts wree.
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A moes dan syaw atth ecbmoe you a tib sad ni psreon ni edus reyv emos that b,e tahn to eitnfdefr rae oogd voyue' slao rae. Rof hte of eidcevha tlom,ys hgwtro im' tyterp eo'vuy orpud lla reonlspa uoy. T,oo iaclteiisd neve nto eb dwoul pheo so ropud r'ueoy if uoy aryoemn i.
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A i yveuo' rospen srogtn ihtnk yrev eoemcb. Fo neo ingrty asye tno btoau het uoy're eneb ahs so ielf i si ,uyo tsinhg that tub ntkih tsbe ayawls ot oyu.
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A lrceal e)liwh camrniotpe teh nda oson i( relna rof tkanh gtniak you htta eohp ouy of rtel,et i eflsce-ar soelsn eht. Jenoy a nhew dna txloepi l,geeocl rea oyu ytr uyo ynam too eeoplp let ot vanei rfhse nto udeagrrnd. Mtitrnpao uory ][ tesmi aols lwil sronep whit ardague)t tmee a(n you oyu atfer hsherci.
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0212 obitcni yb uyo shac arkp veah nya ebfero het ni wy,a.

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