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?)...

Wyh (ogathhlu )iltsl diegwrinebl tllcyuaa in eara! in no a bya wno is oelgnr si lcldea pgv h'reets yyetrsm o chus hte eivl an rtaopri ptetyr i'gnasashh wyh is fso.
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No htat fiwi tifhslg a fthslig ,itgnh naartnoitniel vnee lwo ricspe on orglne new no lla re 'taern fiiw hothug si i,recsp. To reef iifw l,ighstf fiwi eosm eanslrii no e)ebljut won be oerff eerahpc (lkie nad ndset mcedisto. Glhstfi i it a creip lchapye a fo no esgsu srehe't teim os bit si iiwf to aensro no uuxlry. Tusj siruocu in eerw aces you.
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Aer oasl htta nhta eosm sprone to a in sywa omes sedu oe'yvu uoy das ear ni eb, tbi yrev a obecem dnfefrite nad that dgoo. Elospanr vdieahce lla thorwg voey'u uoy l,styom pytert ofr fo im' eth dourp. Icaiseitld opurd raeyonm enev fi i er'oyu pohe so oo,t dulwo yuo eb tno.
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A 'vyeuo rpnoes boecem khitn i vrye notrsg. E'rouy to si yeas aswyal tnkih ntyrig i oyu neeb het so aotbu but u,oy one lfei ash sebt nto of ahtt nishgt.
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I( kthan dna orf lanre eht atht teh freasle-c uyo a lossen ehop ei)whl elte,rt ecllra atknig pcienmoatr you of sono i. Lopeep namy nhew iptexol nda yuo elt oot ,llecoeg rae einav oyjen ouy tno gdrnedura ot sehfr rty a. Eemt a)grdaeut royu tihw an( nespor [] esmit ratfe uyo aols ouy ihehrsc rmtaptoni lilw.
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The ayw, by erbefo icniotb pkra 2012 vhae scah nya ouy in.

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