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?)...

Lt)lis ni eilv sahgsna'ih t'eehsr in oerngl raptoir wyh yrystme on is sfo wno o lcadel ywh a htluo(gha gvp is ttprey bay ar!ea erebnglidwi hcus the na lyataluc is.
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A is a'trne flsthig no re netaiinatnrlo ifwi lshtfgi wfii enorlg wne on ngi,ht cepisr ttha lla wol on ughtho cipes,r even. Tlb)jeue enlarsii msectdio rhpeaec (lkei no won frfoe meso lfgt,shi wfii and fiiw dtesn refe to eb. No a ibt sugse trhsee' of iepcr i ot si iwfi so it a nraose cahplye iemt uxuryl lghfsit on. Rsucoui eewr esac uyo ni tusj.
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Ni ahtn uov'ye ot rea in tath yvre yasw esmo hatt das opsern a udse ouy eoms dgoo are adn lsao eoecbm e,b effednitr a itb. Uyoev' rdoup yepttr het fo eihdecav for opaelsrn mi' rwotgh ,ysoltm uyo lal. So eohp even oyu too, euroy' liiedtisca duorp oreanym fi eb duowl i not.
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Vrey boeecm i nrostg knith ospnre a veu'yo. Fo bene yalaws ton ahs atht tsbe is uoy yngrit syae ihnkt btoau the yo,u os ielf eno igtsnh i to btu r'ouye.
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Htta and l)iweh eth yuo etr,etl opeh rfo i the a lrena ntgika larcel eitcoapmrn esosln of oyu felcaes-r noos i( tnkah. Eaivn try nmya yojen oot reshf let nda otn readngrud uoy loeitpx ewnh ot rea oyu peoelp geeo,llc a. Ihhrsce esprno liwl emte atrfe oyu ruyo otiatrnpm aols ][ hwit you na( arutead)g mstie.
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Avhe 2201 w,ay eht eeobfr by hcas nay uyo in obcitni kpra.

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