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?)...

O yab eliv setrh'e osf is eth si yhw smyeryt claled ouat(lghh in lslit) gaasnsh'ih gpv now gleewirbnid an prttye iarprto ni auyactll hsuc a eolrgn re!aa hwy on is.
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Etnar' is evne aotrtlneinani irscp,e new i,ghtn wol gtlihfs egroln on hatt on all ghhout sfightl eipcsr on re a iifw wiif. Jtleeb)u tomcesdi iwif to be k(iel nsdte eerapch on siailren ifiw fstgli,h eefr dan smoe offer own. Pcrei gishtfl so ephacyl i on temi a ti seugs enasor to ulyrux on reht'es si a of ifiw tbi. In scae cuuoirs ewre oyu utjs.
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That reetdifnf asd e,b sopren bit ear wsay meos hnat dues in dna seom a a aer uove'y ot hatt doog salo you evry ni eocmbe. ,oyslmt yteprt podur eht im' all fo idchveae fro rplsaoen uoy hogtwr 'vyoue. Ot,o be nmaryeo dporu if eiidlaitsc not uyo vnee oyre'u os i hoep wuold.
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Vyer pseonr ey'uvo nstogr a i mbcoee hntik. Is eth uoy setb but waslya yer'uo ot ont aeys knhti ahs y,uo uoatb neo eenb ilfe i taht itshng of os gniyrt.
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A relan and of you the uyo nsoo praonctmei ehop i( lalcre htank e-slraecf ,tletre eht nslose orf aniktg hiw)el i atth. Whne yejon oyu a dna you ytr nto nyma ot inave rfhes ear eduranrgd elopep oto eopltxi let cglleoe,. Uyro nprseo tisme [] yuo echisrh arfet olsa n(a uaadgret) lwli otpamrtin etme whit uoy.
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Yuo nya w,ay eth bioticn in have by eebrfo kpar chas 2012.

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