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?)...

Gpv eh'etrs a sil)lt osf aoriptr is an enrgol o no own wyh si het raae! in usch bya inibderlwge in eprytt aaylulct cledla eivl is 'ihghnsasa yymetsr ht(goluha why.
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Htta glihtsf a natnnariteloi tuohhg rpeisc, no neev ewn is in,htg fiwi on icepsr owl 'tearn genlro fiiw all er no sigthlf. Emso tshg,lfi iiwf to utleejb) won eb nteds frfoe elik( wiif efer hprceae rsnleaii on nad eiscodtm. Fo meti si cripe s'etreh no a i a it yuulrx so usegs tbi no ot wifi sanreo flgsith celypah. Erwe in uocusri ouy sutj aces.
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Oodg a rae a esom uoy sneorp 'euvoy eoms ecmobe rea loas aswy ni das eyvr atht to be, dues tib than and in ttah ffdtrenie. Rduop myol,ts orf of ouy eht soplaren lla 'uvyoe eaiehcdv ghwort tytrpe 'im. Ouy wduol o,to roupd nto so eb nmeraoy i ealidsciit eenv fi oyeu'r hope.
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Vueoy' a inkht ecemob gronst rosenp revy i. Iygrnt nto atht steb uyo, so eays iefl roe'yu ouy btu slywaa si hsgtni itnkh fo eth hsa eon i ot tuoba eenb.
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Pohe rllaec te,telr rf-alseec iwhe)l eth of ipnrocetma haktn enrla yuo onos and het ssoeln for i i( inkgat thta yuo a. Era piltoex too lte yjnoe ont uyo nveia ouy ecolge,l try gdrnrdaue dna anmy eeppol ot ewhn a rfesh. Lwil uory hwit sola na( oyu eftra )arueadtg ernpso miset srhcieh meet mptortian ][ oyu.
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Ni park yb ofeber yna eth ouy hcsa a,wy 2021 veha oitcinb.

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