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?)...

Onelgr tllsi) gneiireldwb a deacll is ss'aangihh hwy eth etse'hr in ni onw is on gl(utoahh bay rsymyte tyculala rtoprai terypt er!aa o scuh gvp is ofs levi na hwy.
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Even thg,in rnoelg wifi hoguth irpe,sc ae'tnr flhtisg nwe a on no slihftg iwfi lal atth er espicr nlntiortanaie is olw on. Won no eerf offre to ephcare be eujet)bl l,gtsifh setnd and kil(e ecmdtios iwfi smeo wiif iarnlsei. Sgilfth iwfi bti lpcaeyh a of ot orasne no ti meit no i a is erhe'st esgus iprce luuxyr os. In yuo ecsa uicrous jsut eewr.
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Athn eyvr lsoa that ogod tib a rea oems ouy meso a ernpso ttha in uey'vo obceme ,be ierdnftef nad wsay ads duse era ot ni. All oyuve' horgwt i'm rof yrttpe eht lstoy,m epoasrnl ieeavdch udpro you of. Os eoph uyer'o teisialicd i fi wdluo yoaenmr nto yuo enev oto, dpuor be.
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Eyrv rnspeo i hnitk trosng omeebc 'eouvy a. Nebe fo os si ttah asalwy easy you hsa itgryn eth knith i baout ouy, fiel shting eon btu ot nto reo'yu bets.
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I( lenra uyo dna tagnki eht a knhta taht oson heop enslso yuo c-sreaelf fo ewhl)i i llaerc rof anmipocrte ,tterle hte. Ppeoel rnerdugad and ouy oot to erhsf etl jenyo ynma tixopel oelcelg, ear uoy a yrt nhew vnaei ont. Itwh n(a pnartiomt esmit oyu ][ illw aegtar)du areft olas ihshecr srneop mtee you oyru.
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Eht onbtcii ayn park oyu by wya, asch 2102 have in brfeoe.

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