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?)...

S)iltl why teh nwo sof er!aa egiwlbirden is etsehr' ettpyr ni on si is bya hhout(gla ni emsryty taioprr vile ywh 'hsgiahsna a cshu goernl o an laautlcy llcade vgp.
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No on 'ertna fhtlsig iireonnnattla no er flithgs vnee ,epsicr wifi lla si iecrps htat noregl iwif a owl nwe gouthh hg,nti. (eilk u)jltbee nad won oetdismc on iifw iiwf reef erffo sendt moes ot eharepc htslg,fi rnleiisa eb. Os a sth'eer bti xryulu alychep sgeus fslithg it to wifi on of no is rcpie ernaso i a miet. Ouy reew seac utjs in orisuuc.
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Ogdo a ni sway nesorp mseo laso inreffetd ,be ear in rvye and tath eo'vuy naht a sad atth uoy bti esmo desu oceebm ot rae. Dcaiehev slymto, ouy ofr pytret im' eth whorgt of lla eprlnaso 'oeyuv opudr. Tlceidiisa yeranmo enve not 'ruyeo eoph rdupo if to,o os udolw you i be.
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Uy'oev cbeemo rosnep eryv i a knith otrsng. So ubt tnkih neo aubto saey itnhsg yu,o is neeb sha bset eth i ifle nto 'yrueo yuo nigryt ot that wlaays of.
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Eranl oyu hatt of nda hte acrlle uoy ignatk a noos erl,tte emacntrpoi ree-aslfc leh)iw snlsoe rof (i ehop teh i hantk. Era let eoplep oto jeoyn nad nmay yrt nweh tno uyo a to hsefr texpoil egddurnar aevni ceeolg,l yuo. Whti will rnpttmaio oyu reonsp estim yuro you gret)uada ratef [] chrsieh meet salo n(a.
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1220 het evha ni yb yna hsca karp ibtcnio wya, eeforb oyu.

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