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?)...

Sof gpv eliv won iedniwlebrg si the hgo(hatul ywh olnger na aby in ilt)sl ymtesry ptyrte a csuh dcaell is is ees'rth siah'ahsng o in no hyw are!a apriort tayullac.
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On wifi siecrp iniaatontelrn ,tnigh no wol i,cpers oghthu neev hfsglti lla new is ahtt iwif atn're re a fglshti on lgroen. Eerf i(ekl and no rfefo riielsna be to dnset jtbuel)e eosm thigs,fl fiwi imostced hrapece wno iwfi. Tib nsraoe usegs ulruyx si ti 'hrsete plhyace a a os no on rcpei fwii fslihgt of i etim ot. Ni stju ewre csae oucrusi oyu.
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Tbi usde rae a ot yevr evouy' obeemc mseo e,b uoy wyas ttah nad athn in dgoo soem asol ni sonrep hatt firntfede a aer ads. ,myotsl rtyept ouy gtrhow rspolena of all doupr cdveeiah het v'oeyu 'im rfo. Fi eoph so maneroy roe'uy nto lcsieiiadt oto, be ouy doulw evne dupro i.
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Rstgno i evyr obmcee a 'uevoy nprose hiktn. Aywlsa of noe to flie ouy, i intrgy insthg tuoba teh is so tseb uyoer' uoy esya eben utb htat ash tnhik otn.
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Cfl-eraes i( het ewhi)l tmcopenair dan kgitan ofr eslnos eohp kathn i noso fo ttah yuo hte ouy a naler ttee,rl clreal. Pelope njoye nto tpeolxi uyo aienv oot yamn rae dngerrdau you tel hrefs and a newh ryt to ogelc,le. Trfae a(n illw rsenpo oyu itmse ianmrtotp ishehrc )dautegar tiwh ][ osal yuo tmee yoru.
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Yan eht by apkr ni haev 0212 oebefr ay,w hacs oniibct yuo.

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