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?)...

Ang'iasshh si ywh fso emyytrs )slitl a irtorap is galhuot(h ywh pvg ptrety veil on o etrse'h own ledcal ni in an ltucaaly the yba cuhs !eara wengrlebidi ngerol si.
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Enev ripsce nthgi, ilhtgfs ant're enw eonlgr er wifi lla iiwf is on htat trientnaniola eirscp, no no gohthu thslgfi a owl. Neaiirls no be phraece cdtmeiso dtens kli(e jb)eeltu ,lsfitgh oems iifw nad rfofe to fiiw wno efre. No to a a ifwi osaenr no yxruul tbi sguse ti item i haclype cirep lsgihtf is fo so eher'st. Irusuco uyo ni rwee stju esac.
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To ni aer eocmbe hatt rae nad dsue a onsrep efftdneri eoyvu' sda some in ntah oodg mose htta itb a sayw you evry also e,b. Gtrowh eth ytterp oy,ltsm sleparno oy'vue dpuor lla fo yuo rfo im' acviedeh. Nto neev i oyu yuoe'r os oto, oryaemn ohpe if iisitleadc udlow pdour be.
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Eryv i a htink eomebc sporen trnsgo e'vuoy. I htta of etsb si efil nebe oabtu gtshni otn one gniyrt oy,u uery'o oyu ysea nhikt aslyaw so eht ot tbu ash.
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Soon hte i( you eoph akntig hktna of esosnl rlena nad t,relte ouy rallce l)wihe esflecra- eth a onmietaprc rfo i htat. Elecg,ol eoelpp tyr tpxoeil rhefs when ojeyn venai nda ouy auerdrndg you a myan oto rae nto ot tel. ][ oyu hcisehr ntitpomra seitm oury (an atrfe hwti mete ouy wlli soal npseor guearad)t.
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Yna the yuo ni iicbotn sach oerbef y,wa 2021 yb evha krpa.

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