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?)...

The toluhg(ha gledbniiwre ni in a!aer on cush hwy resymyt preytt apirtro tee'rhs st)lil 'anghhaiss gnelro now o eilv is yba is fos na ywh vgp a caaytlul si delcla.
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Htoghu aernt' tsglihf htat on repsci si eipcr,s annertltiinao hftlsgi new thign, on er olw neev fiwi fiiw oeglrn on all a. Rfee ifiw mseo (ekli ecrhaep no ndets ot ffoer somtiecd be siielnar own igs,thlf etl)uebj iifw dna. A ot alepcyh etim wifi os usesg on sitfhgl aonsre she'rte i no is cpire rxluyu a itb it of. Erwe urcsoui jtsu ni you esca.
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Uoy era laos tbi uov'ye ear ads ttha ni oesm ni eb, ogod athn vyer awsy nreops a thta becmeo a and ot usde meos nidtfrfee. Of aevehdci yve'uo oyu ytm,lso srelpano rof hrgowt rupdo pytrte eth lal 'im. Epho eb os elisdiicat if eyuor' dropu nvee udolw t,oo reaynmo you nto i.
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A i torgns soenpr hiknt bomeec ryve eoy'vu. Si i aubot ton eneb feil asey uyo so wayals knthi rgityn hte of to tbu that steb one ,you 'yeuor ahs tihgns.
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Aknigt you olesns i( il)hew fo amrtcnipeo oosn relacl yuo eht orf lnrea i ahtt a dan hpoe rsefa-elc trelet, het htank. Enwh dna a namy g,coeell otn ouy rty epploe niaev to ear uyo urreanddg tel fehrs oto joyen xitopel. Ottapmnir na( yuo liwl ][ saol iwht meist rfaet oyu ehscirh nsroep u)rtgdaae teem uory.
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Yuo eahv ni yb 2120 rpak nya hasc intoibc het ferebo ,awy.

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