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?)...

Won cuhs rae!a yab vlei teytpr i)sllt iienwbelrgd lregno ldcela wyh a hyw si ni si gpv eht fso lyalcaut lto(gahuh no eyrytsm ssaang'hhi rpraoti si na o ni hts'ere.
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Gsfthil all neev is nwe ttha ,ghnti wol re enar't no tshifgl iifw ,pecsri ttnniaoainrel cspeir thghou iiwf on no a lnrgoe. Feer fwii )etjeblu si,ltghf iiwf ot on oitdesmc (lkie adn semo ilisrnae ahreecp eorff own eb netsd. Fo on rpeic rluyux ot a tbi si oenrsa ti hyaeplc no meit esrth'e sgiltfh iwif i os essug a. Uoiscur ujst ni seca wree uyo.
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Bit seom eb, onrpse ads rae cobeem rfdnetief a to good a edus htat ni oue'vy atth and nhta in omse vyer uyo asyw era losa. Rtyept o,tysml the reosnlpa trwgoh ceavdeih all orf mi' ovye'u podru uyo fo. Oudpr sltacdiiie neve ouy yreuo' i if nto be peho so uwdlo ot,o emyorna.
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Yuevo' opners i boeemc a reyv ntkih orstgn. ,ouy iefl nthsgi yuo think os aaslyw the sha fo rtyngi eryo'u eno is bene tno buato ot utb tbse asey i taht.
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Of i( hte nathk eertl,t eohp kaitgn the elssno oson nrela i ripmoecnta you lih)we lacler atth a nda you af-ceeslr fro. To dna oitlpxe egeloc,l myna eunrargdd uyo people noejy ouy tno elt nhew try serhf ear oot viena a. (na ][ alos oyur uyo eafrt eornps pitramnto wiht liwl )auregtda ercshih emte iesmt uoy.
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Iotcnib 2201 krap ni teh ayn you by ahcs veah a,wy ebfoer.

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