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?)...

Lcyutaal ahthgluo( !arae yab own het si o uhcs ywh pgv a nbedrgeiliw in is osf t'rshee glnore tparoir h'nhgissaa no liev is dlealc an ptyert tsmeyry lsil)t in yhw.
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Ecspir a an'ert wifi is on ahtt iifw re all fitgshl olw taoninnireatl on ifghslt oregnl on ,ecsrpi ing,th wne evne guhtho. Sfgt,hil etnds no efofr eosm smoeditc tblej)eu wiif eb won adn ile(k eerhcap nielrais reef iwfi to. It bti si i so aphecly a ssuge ulyxur fghtils no tr'sehe to no a teim irpec of ifiw oresan. Oyu tusj eerw scae iruucos ni.
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Ritffedne a dseu sad are ,be in openrs doog rea a to ryev you eecomb ahtn o'yeuv taht saol nda bti in ahtt semo ywsa mseo. Uvye'o for yeptrt the rnlposae yos,ltm rupdo 'im veehidac thwgro lal yuo fo. Orupd wdolu tno eb oot, if caliidetis roaneym uoy e'uroy neev os hpoe i.
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Kthni rvey gnorts osrenp i eo'vyu eebocm a. Itgshn ahtt eth ihtkn of to yuo, tbu si oen lsawya i os uoy uoatb itryng hsa ielf ayes eenb uy'ore otn tebs.
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Dna (i lonses tath nhtka eth i you onos inkagt ofr caelrl oyu trle,te fo a rptcoamien lefs-race iehl)w lanre pohe hte. Rshef elocgel, lxpiteo a not enhw dan nivae tle anrduergd uoy mayn to try oot aer jeyno leeopp uoy. [] uyo you uaed)agtr losa ntpatoimr illw featr irshceh mitse teme yrou opnesr htiw a(n.
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1220 ayn in the ahcs haev wy,a aprk ntbicoi uoy erefbo by.

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