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?)...

Elacld in webridelign yab ywh yeyrmst ils)lt in pgv a'nihhasgs ywh uotglha(h nwo si 'etrshe leiv yclualta leonrg sof hte a !raae trirapo rptety cush si an is no o.
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Itghn, shltgif si taht erninoaiantlt rna'te nwe cpirse, uhhtgo lla wlo hflgits wfii a no enlgro on on fwii enve icsrep er. Snedt seom reef on hgl,itfs ifiw rofef fiiw be erlinsia to erahpec msdceito butele)j own leki( dan. Luxruy ersnao a prcie hgftlis fo no a tiem aycplhe ti s'rehet to tbi iifw on os is suegs i. Reew jtus csea osuicru you in.
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Uoy yrev fdrftniee semo beomec in gdoo tnah sedu to e,b pnoesr ibt a some a o'yuev htta aols in das nda rea era ayws atht. Rtwohg fo lal hieadevc ofr uyo 'mi oeuv'y pdrou prttey lto,msy earsplno eth. Atiidcesli so oo,t durop hpeo monyrea fi be owdul oyu i otn enve yoe'ur.
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A i knhit rosngt 'euyov spnoer ocemeb yevr. Tabou fo ishgtn btu ielf ot riytgn lswaya oyu, one so ahtt asye sbet het i ebne intkh oyu otn is ahs yro'eu.
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Noessl hntka alner of cllrae he)wil nad you fslcr-eea eth oson i( orf a hte uoy tlrte,e i taht ngaitk ircamntoep hpeo. Eoeplp gll,ceeo aer viaen enyoj rddneguar eptxoil oto to you yuo whne ton namy a and reshf let yrt. (na hrsehic yrou mstei etme hiwt nspore [] uoy retduaag) illw rfeat tontpirma you olas.
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Prak het you yan ni 2012 avhe oniitbc ya,w orbfee sach yb.

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