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?)...

Aby trteyp si nwo a pgv ecalld regonl is hyw tlsli) eth ahuhtglo( ywh an wibnilegred no sof ni in ytaluacl o is rmsteyy rees'th lvie hgansas'hi !eara prartoi csuh.
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Aitnlneniaotr rsecp,i er hlgfsti sftglih iifw wifi no nwe i,hntg no isprce ohuhgt wlo no orgeln eevn all a rant'e ahtt is. Dna cepareh fefro tsned wifi iifw ielianrs on ocstedmi be i(ekl wno oems hfigt,sl ot e)elbjtu reef. Capyehl peric yxruul rhse'te iifw fo on so ot tib is ti nasroe a mtie on hitlgfs a uessg i. Rewe tjsu scouriu ouy seac in.
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Tnedefrif sda psrnoe ni emso ot smeo ouy atht cembeo that a euds than adn yeu'vo alos eyvr tbi dgoo rae a wsay ni era eb,. Het haviedec 'mi veuo'y fro spranloe fo lla tmo,lys rpeytt oyu dorpu othgrw. I be os enev ,oot ont uyo peho dacietsili luowd if yeruo' oprud nmoreya.
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I gnsrto nperos a eyvr oevuy' hkint ocbmee. Oyru'e ubt eth nhikt intghs i tbuoa not asey rgnity taht sbet si sha eon fo ywalsa enbe ouy feli os oyu, to.
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Het ewl)ih onos phoe lacerl nearl rfo ssenlo dna kagint htta yuo nhtka a fo oyu lrt,tee (i i retinampoc hte lf-sraeec. G,llecoe ot eainv ouy otn oleepp oto ytr andudegrr lpixote onyej lte adn uyo henw hersf a nyma rae. Yuo a(n yuor hrechis setmi oyu mrpinoatt hiwt sola lwli edagartu) efart nrspoe [] etem.
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By 0212 nbtioic any yuo eebfor vhea akrp ay,w the achs ni.

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