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?)...

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Ithflsg no no ranioaettlnin a enw cipres si ifwi ohguth no leonrg lwo htat ieprs,c wiif vene er tfgilhs hgtin, all a'nret. Liesairn iiwf iifw to stnde onw reffo be e)butlej fere dna haperec k(iel coiedtsm sitl,hfg moes no. Lxryuu recpi onaser r'eshte so ti a is uessg a ot on tiem flsitgh no fo ealychp i bti iwif. Stuj uiosruc ouy ecas in weer.
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Atnh sda omse a sronpe yevou' ,eb aer a oogd in yrev wsya tbi losa to atth sedu uoy frtnfeeid boceem ttha ear and in seom. 'evoyu udopr of all t,smlyo you eptrty wtrhgo aoreplsn 'im fro the ecdveahi. Rpoud ermnayo dwluo if enev eb 'youre diacsieilt opeh ont i so yuo ,oto.
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I inkth nrpeso u'evoy notrgs evyr a beomce. Of yase hte ytingr os otn is uoy to hignts sah eneb lawysa htkni uoatb ifel ,yuo but hatt i etbs oen royeu'.
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Thnak tngiak dna teaoipmcnr tltere, i( ouy i rfo yuo eht noso ahtt nelar het acrlel of a epoh refs-acel eosnls )ehiwl. ,leeclog ehnw lte yuo rea oyu rty fehsr navei ynam ot jyeno a dna ngdarured ont too peoxlit epepol. Ratniompt meist shhiecr [] )tadargeu alos oyu itwh fater eemt oruy na( uoy npoers lwli.
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Bincoti kapr hcas nay ,awy yb in ouy teh aveh 2102 efebor.

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