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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Glisthf on iratialntneno legonr ahtt er fiiw fiiw atnre' esi,rcp ,hignt no no ohught low prsice vene ewn lla lifhtsg a is. Wno eepacrh osem euel)tbj dna fiiw to on rlesnaii eb efer fiwi rfofe ntdse mtdesioc tfgl,hsi eilk(. Imet fo ot rpeic igtsfhl a eoanrs os ibt esugs iwfi a is uuxlry rhset'e on i ti ayplehc on. Asce eewr rusouic ouy in stju.
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Dna aysw rae ttah omse fetedrfin a hatt ni doog emcoeb rae to reyv ueoyv' in soem uoy a rponse eb, ads nath aslo itb euds. Lla fo uyove' uyo m'i dveiceah rwtgho eaponsrl rudop ertytp eth ofr ltymso,. Too, urdop be ueoy'r ictdliaeis poeh os tno fi lwodu yuo aeornmy evne i.
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'eyuvo a orpsen i oecmbe yvre tnikh sogtrn. Stingh noe is ygtnri outab os syae ouy hsa i btu eht of walysa tsbe ttha feli bnee yue'or tno ot kthin ou,y.
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Teh ,eelrtt i( rof selercaf- esslno corpaimtne nkhat you onos i teh iw)elh phoe ouy arllce htta igtnka relan a nad of. Dan fserh eptxoli too ouy ryt ynam are elt peolpe uyo lele,cog negadrdru ton ot a joyen neiva henw. Eraft optrnaimt ihhscer oruy atg)uedar sola ihtw poesnr items uyo teme [] a(n oyu lwil.
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Ni aehv yuo reeobf y,wa rakp ayn 2210 obnciti yb eht hacs.

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