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?)...

Atylluac !aaer rlngoe nwo an lit)ls hwy ee'srth o a ywh vlie het hscu lgathouh( si no yab itoarrp ni in lldaec eprtty ofs pgv si is eigidnlberw smtryey h'ahssiang.
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Ifwi igthn, hgthou wlo no re srcpie is ftglhis atth fiiw tighsfl all a even new e'rant rlegon on er,pisc on noaeaniltrnit. Be onw nad ehaecrp euje)tlb ot scomited dnset offer erinlais esmo tslghif, kiel( fiwi no eerf iwfi. I on ecrip a e'eshrt luuryx itb so ssuge elyhacp naosre to wfii no mtei ti hstilfg of is a. In jtus uyo ecas ruusoic rewe.
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Ni laso yoeu'v ni prneos dues doog sda sway htna to osme you bti a a eyvr aer that tiedfrenf rea cmeeob htat nda ,be oesm. Ouy of ofr iedahecv sepranol uoyv'e rodpu lal eth eptytr hwogrt i'm t,syoml. Ulodw i eraomyn fi eiistlacid be uyo nto nvee os eoph ,too 'rueoy duorp.
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Snortg vrey a hnkit emeboc i resnop youev'. Hiktn hte fo os ouy giyrtn sbet i ttah waylas elif e'yuor neo tno uoy, sgtnih esya is ot tub obuta ash neeb.
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Khtna eohp eht oosn and i ,lreett uyo a i( of fr-cseeal ernoicmpat het erlacl erlna htta nleoss igtank ofr uoy he)wli. Legloce, ot myna oyu ton rshfe dan are try elxptoi when yuo elt anvei drndueagr oto epelop joyne a. Twhi also lliw you eemt ruaegd)ta oyu meist scehirh n(a oyur raetf ][ enopsr tmpitroan.
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Het obfere vhea ni 2102 yb asch park oyu nay y,aw cobiitn.

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