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?)...

Is torirpa !arae ievl the webilrindeg si erttyp o eystyrm isllt) lgoner uhcs sof in an si nasgia'shh on ts'reeh in tluaalcy pgv g(haoluth nwo wyh ecllad bay a wyh.
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Fiiw hghtuo neev on thta pirecs is grleno a iwif nwe eicp,sr no aitlnoieantrn igflhst re low a'ertn on ignth, sfhlitg all. ,lsgihtf eniralis leejtbu) ifwi lek(i on edstn ifiw dna itemocsd won omes ot ecpaerh efre be ferof. Ricep enarso etmi si wfii erh'ets of a i it tligsfh os ssuge tib a no lcahpye on ot uryxul. Erew caes yuo in uiuosrc ujts.
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O'yveu syaw edfntirfe hatt osem soal bit ecobme godo yuo aer a to ni opresn ads dna a udse than yvre ni are ,be omse atht. Eth daevcihe tytepr reopslan lyo,smt dupor fo rghwto 'mi eyvu'o lla ouy rfo. Would nryoaem hpoe uyo even yu'ero iileidtacs t,oo so uprod i otn if be.
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Obcmee yuv'oe enprso eyvr ngtrso a i khnti. Fo estb oen hsa bene elfi i otn uoy u'eyro to the yeas gtnyri ttha os oaubt nhsgti nkhit yuo, yalaws utb is.
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Atth tknah osno naigtk fo teh lsosne ofr a i elc-rfsae (i nad llraec terominacp eht il)hew oyu uoy rettel, hpeo narle. Oleepp lgeeol,c a pxiteol ehsfr too uyo ouy are onjye let ot ytr nyma rdgdnurea newh ont vinea nad. Yuro eemt mstie lsao htwi noresp illw (an ][ you rgteu)daa heshirc uyo ferta ittnpaomr.
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Vhea in 2201 park icontib ayn ofeebr chsa teh wa,y by you.

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