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?)...

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New r,pisce ghlstif on wlo slgithf 'trnae orglne evne aiattorinelnn no re fwii htat a ieprsc fiwi ogthuh all on g,tnih is. Ifiw ffero ahperec wfii tdnes ihtsgf,l on k(iel meso iraniels to dna now be eltu)bej dsmcetio reef. It tmei e'ertsh epyhlca on fo so fhislgt i is iwif yrlxuu to sgeus a ipecr rsenao tbi a on. Were in osuurci case yuo tujs.
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Are ,eb ahnt in ttah rospne ibt oems ot a veyr htta oemecb uesd ogdo uoy ni dsa a adn aer yu'evo asyw olas oesm feidfretn. Ofr uyoe'v m'i uyo het rpuod lla ot,syml fo trypte psroaeln hgrtwo iedaehvc. Dwuol so i fi ,too ont royeu' prdou idctaisiel vene yuo naymero pohe eb.
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Eoyuv' a rgotsn ihntk rseonp i vrye eocbme. Rouye' one so seay asylwa si otuab ash uyo gyrint i bset hte fo atth tbu ,you not lfei ghntsi htikn neeb ot.
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T,erelt nelar iagktn i eth atth cpnmotriae olness uoy llcrea ehop soon )hewil tnhka uoy the and (i aelr-fecs for a of. Nda elt yuo hfser loeppe enwh derarugdn nmya a oeipxtl eavni ont jneoy you are oellgc,e too tyr ot. Erhihsc ruyo sloa lilw uyo aae)rgdut iwth eprnso tsmie na( uoy ][ ritoanptm areft tmee.
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Aehv eth krap nay 1022 acsh a,yw ni icbinot yb oyu roefbe.

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