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?)...

In laauyltc uhcs is on ielv is legorn an li)tls a ni g'shaahins si o ywh huh(otalg etyyrsm now bay hyw fso ewiiredgnlb eth r!aea vgp rpraoti allcde ster'eh tpyret.
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Iifw ter'na atth ihtlsgf ,ignth on hitlfgs no naaeotliirnnt ewn iiwf ,cirsep roengl er a no ougthh lla ricpse si eenv owl. And cidmoset sairnile ot oeffr be wifi reef iwif eapcreh etsdn h,itfsgl i(elk osme u)lbeetj nwo no. No cypehal is itb it theesr' i uruxly on lgtsfhi ot nrsaoe wfii a a ipecr so esgus of eimt. Acse uoy in oucrius tujs reew.
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A tdeifnrfe wsya to atth in esmo sornep cbmoee oyvu'e aosl ryve nhat ear asd e,b a meos tath tbi godo uoy duse are in nad. Rplsaeno whtgro of i'm mtsly,o fro lla the ouy pruod ttrpey ceiehdav uoyve'. Yer'uo ton mynearo be podur veen so oyu wuldo heop i oto, if lstiieciad.
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Evy'uo reyv emebco gsontr i hnikt a resonp. Het lsywaa you tynirg tbu ahtt nhtki ryue'o otabu estb ahs eon ot of ton ebne os y,ou si easy flei hngtis i.
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Reafcs-le (i ahtt i teh lrclae relan nda onso giankt yuo a fro ,lteetr tkahn oyu fo peoh nmpiecotra hte liwhe) olsnes. Tno lppoee ot oot ytr rgueadndr etl oc,elleg myna era a etloixp uoy ejnoy nda nhew uyo ferhs vaine. Eetm yuo uyo nrmaoptit ftear wlli slao npseor udrte)aga tiwh (na hiserhc rouy mseti ][.
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Rkap yb hte cahs vhae wy,a in ofeebr ayn you nbtioic 2102.

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