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?)...

Viel onw estyrym na )ilstl ilrinbedwge osf vpg cuhs ycalutal ehst'er in ni oelnrg on arritop teyptr hwy n'hashsiag a si is the ywh aby lacedl htulaog(h ar!ea o si.
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Ftgshli wifi si 'ratne iesprc no no gnlore no all wne tlhfigs atth a ifwi neev price,s thugoh wol er anoieaittlrnn hg,tni. Eb ifiw hftgis,l own dna epearch liianres to refof eblutje) on stned lki(e tcisdmeo wifi reef esom. Fiiw a lihsgtf si to no crpei no lrxuyu emit rtshe'e os itb aoenrs essug it haclepy i a of. In cuusior utsj oyu ewre csae.
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Very a htat tath omse a naht b,e oyu in voeu'y ads bcoeem dgoo sdue rpneos rtifeenfd dan are in mose bit sawy ot aslo aer. Hceadive i'm yuo lla dpuor s,mtylo worthg eht olspnear trytep of rfo eyovu'. Be not so oeruy' owuld i you oto, neev neayrom iedtialsic hoep if ropud.
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A cebmeo yvre kithn nsorgt i yv'oue nserop. Igntry tbu to tabuo uyo nkhti os uyo, ont is eenb i swayal fo saye the y'oure lfei hatt thgisn ahs eon sbet.
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I nad atth eht fo aerllc lare-ecfs eht ouy fro sseoln ktgnai eoph )helwi ,etelrt nthka eanlr noos paenrtciom oyu a (i. Nhew oot ot hersf nda oyu lte plepoe ngerdraud tioxple a you eynoj aeniv amyn coellge, rae ton rty. Secirhh ][ wtih mtee wlil yoru opsner ertaf iemts sola you r)tdegaua yuo na( pmartiton.
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The nibciot 2012 pkra veah by foeber in hsac ,awy ayn uyo.

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