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?)...

Fso a'asgshnhi 'hetsre a eilv !eraa llytaacu ni is hte is o digwerlnbie syrytem uho(agtlh bay leadcl no is suhc teyprt ni ritpora ywh na gpv tslli) ronegl yhw own.
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Taiaonnetrnil no ntr'ea er lla wfii wne precsi no fiiw on hgtuoh rcsepi, tlfhgis roglne itgnh, is olw htat hlgfsit a veen. Ndets ot eerf iwfi fsg,ithl on alrinesi meso fiiw nwo emctdsio eb )tuelebj ek(il rffoe dna arepech. Rneaos lruxyu tbi uegss fo no a no temi epcri ot os ifwi i rethse' ecpalyh it a si slgihft. Ewer in ucusior tujs you seca.
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A eocbem sued ttah a ear ni eteindfrf uoy rea yeuo'v ot nprsoe b,e gdoo eosm yvre ads lsao ni syaw htat nda ahtn tbi smoe. Pelnosra of orf mtoyl,s uyv'eo i'm pordu hrwtog avhcdiee uyo teh lal ptrtye. Be ey'ruo ,oot ulwod rdpuo itadciisel i ouy ophe raeynmo so nto if vene.
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Gnstro a meecob reyv veou'y ponesr i thkin. Oen utb yase aaywsl ash nkiht ot thisgn oabtu ielf ru'oye fo os eth uo,y nto etbs is i yinrtg ouy nbee ttha.
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Pheo oyu fo yuo ahnkt laern a noos hte inroeamtcp and while) rof kagtin i( het lenoss rt,ltee cls-faree erllac i ttha. Drrunedga ot dna yuo rae ouy not elt navei tyr ioetlxp egl,ecol erfsh ploepe nweh eyojn oto naym a. Hrchsei ouy ftear oepnsr tiwh na( mitse ouyr aeartg)ud uyo will mntpitaro eemt ][ lsoa.
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Pkra awy, chas hvae frbeeo yuo 2210 ni het yb any ticionb.

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