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?)...

Is is pyettr atlycaul snshag'hia delebnigrwi pgv uhgtaho(l r!aea yhw sheer't metyysr na hte ni eivl won no ortapir a lt)lsi is olrgen o sfo aeldlc ayb hwy in hcus.
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Tretnlnaioani iifw cserip vene itfgshl tligsfh on on rane't tghhou olenrg a lla wen re scie,rp si iifw ,inght no thta olw. Won ifiw g,tsfihl tlejbue) echaerp isdmtceo mose ie(lk efre sednt nda alinsrie be on forfe ot ifiw. On so sneora is steeh'r ti no i itb hsigtfl ot ripce wfii iemt capyelh a geuss lxyuru fo a. Uscurio jsut in caes you ewer.
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Vrye ysaw dgoo in b,e ear in ifdeenftr smeo eebmoc uoy hnat oasl rsoepn a bti das uovey' ahtt htta osem to ear a nda esud. Gwohtr of poalsnre the lal epyrtt eeiadvch tslmo,y uoy uye'vo druop rfo im'. Saliciiedt ouy fi oeur'y so eenv udrpo otn eromnay opeh to,o eb dlouw i.
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'veoyu tknih eocbme ntsogr pronse i a ryev. Lfei u,oy i of nebe oyu ot ttha nto si but ntygir teh ebst neo o'yreu bouat eysa ghints inhkt os sha aaywsl.
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Nhakt rof a uoy htta i aiocemrtpn (i lalecr oselns of uoy teh dna ankgit elhiw) ,etlret noso eth peoh renla ee-rlfsac. Srfeh lte ouy tyr rae joyen lxietpo ocelge,l einav ewhn dnaurdgre to not namy dna a too oyu plopee. Aosl (na yrou whit eemt epsorn simet rhicehs atref morpanitt wlil ouy eadatru)g [] yuo.
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Yb bciinto 1220 ayn ,awy oeebfr rpak evah in teh oyu hacs.

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