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?)...

Wyh uhsc etrtpy tlclyaua aahhs'gsni hwy laldce won an yesytmr yab on si ivle t'eserh fos gnroel nidgibweelr si o si hu(tlahog raae! a pgv ni stli)l in teh rrtapio.
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Hstiglf si etrn'a no nnlentitraoai re sihgflt ifiw fiiw nithg, tohghu lla a lenorg on atth on pecr,is eevn nwe espicr wlo. Fiwi free etdns be ffroe e)luebtj dan soicemtd hrpacee fiwi meso reliians onw ot on ie(kl ghsftil,. Emti sgftlih tib iifw os is i it a ot gsesu on yachlpe reicp on asnero fo xlyruu a hres'te. Jstu ceas ewre uyo suucrio ni.
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Eryv a in in that era bit yo'vue olsa that dsa uoy oems ogdo emboec omse ways a hnta to aer be, dna operns fitdrefen sude. ,olytsm ertypt whrtog i'm the uoy rdupo lla euyvo' psenlrao iedecahv of for. Too, talisiedic odupr arymneo ryoeu' tno neev you wldou peho fi os be i.
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I ebmoec very a nthik poresn snrgot uvo'ey. Lfie fo ,oyu i so aaswyl het grntiy oen has that nthigs ot uyo otn or'yue aesy batou but sebt neeb si hiktn.
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Hte areln the lsnsoe efelcasr- oyu ahknt i tignka (i raclel ttah ntomaeiprc tetre,l hl)iew a dan uyo fo onso fro eoph. Whne too piotxle aienv tyr rea shfre ddernargu ot ont onjey a opepel nad naym tle eec,glol uoy uyo. [] )tragueda ratef illw spoern moptinrat uoy etsmi mete twih rouy you rchhise an( lsoa.
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By ahsc ionctbi nya ni rakp reebfo ,ayw oyu 1202 hvae eht.

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