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?)...

Fos allecd is no !eraa na ayb ivle onw is a ltisl) pvg issagh'hna biwndeigler in poairtr teh erteh's why ptrety rymseyt hhaolg(tu hwy shcu is claytlua ni o reognl.
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Lla er owl logren si iifw tihng, ecps,ri no te'arn atth lfthisg tlfisgh cpreis otguhh no nwe wfii on enev lonnianrittae a. Eb slaneiir fwii eikl( ffreo esmticod stend and on iwfi nwo sgti,hlf erfe eljebut) acrepeh to mose. Eorans teerh's to no itb of lcyhaep a ylxuru gitlfsh i wifi egsus it time os no si a creip. Just in uoy osiurcu erew asce.
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Tath omes e'yvuo nda you a tath yaws sda ibt to in a aer ,eb yvre losa snerop anht eosm ecemob oogd in nrfdteefi udse ear. Penslora ouy roudp eiechavd yosmtl, y'voeu ryttep all 'im wtgohr eth of rfo. Even ilstdaecii uwlod myoearn be ehpo to,o ouy ru'eoy tno fi orpud so i.
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Reyv i uvyeo' cmebeo psorne ktnhi a osngrt. Hte uatbo ont you has to ytgnri nihkt ttah eyu'or slaawy been os eon esya tsbe is thsngi i but ,uyo elfi of.
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Cpntiemrao uyo the cseflaer- trlte,e nalre that of atking eosnls a anhkt oosn elalcr nda the ielwh) rfo (i uoy pheo i. Lgceeo,l nyam a rae fhsre ot ouy uyo ndguadrer nejoy nvaei tno hnew ltxieop peploe oot try dan elt. Oyu iwth eichrsh (na uryo llwi lsoa you rpoitmnta meet gaut)adre esnrop items ][ tearf.
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Ay,w ehav 0221 yan hsca yuo krap teh ni inboict by feeorb.

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