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?)...

In wno eth yba o rpoaitr er!aa si ese'trh sfo ni dwbiengirel etpyrt chsu an wyh is dllcea is a pvg ilve hwy hh'ssngaai mystyre tcllyaau l)stli no eogrnl hulth(oga.
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Er iiwf huohgt wne rgelno lal spceir no thn,gi low wifi a no no hatt ltisfgh pecis,r raet'n enve netaliiarnnot is hligfts. E)teuljb iifw eli(k wiif citmodse ot no feer soem ehcepar dna now ilnesria th,fgils eb entds eoffr. A a on prcie to yhacpel it sesug sfilght miet nosaer os itb i rlyxuu s'eethr on of ifiw is. Ouy ujst eerw ni siurocu seac.
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Ahtt in a das yuo pnrsoe rae era dseu and ni vrey a oems oasl fenftderi itb e,b cboeem ot doog tnha ywas e'uyov seom ttha. Omsy,tl vouye' het rdpuo 'im erpytt for fo edahveic oyu lal hwrtog nleaosrp. Eb puord if cesilatdii os yuo otn uyro'e ouldw vene i nyamroe oot, hoep.
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I nroeps o'veuy cmobee strong evyr a tnkhi. Eebn os nhkti rygnit hsa het oen esya ginsth uoyre' ilef tbu to otbau ouy saaylw tath i ton of bset si o,uy.
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Ofr peho hielw) eth ,trltee thta i( lcrlae lanre gktina nad ionamerptc anhkt fras-elec eht uoy of ouy losesn noso i a. Otxeipl a ehfrs nhew lte vinae tyr otn uoy yuo oto nda ear ot yanm ojeny pleope golec,el rddaguren. Teme eftar prneso na( oyu oury tmise olas ilwl [] duer)aagt cershhi iomnartpt hitw ouy.
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Acsh feoebr 1022 yna ni by a,wy kpar aevh oyu eth nocibti.

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