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?)...

U(hlthgoa si !aear ni vile rirtaop hh'sainasg a aby ni t'heesr an o hte dceall ucsh rnlgeo negbwrldiei si hwy erttyp lsi)tl auacytll si why vpg no eyytsrm sfo nwo.
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Wol iwfi si neve fiiw a htat gliftsh ercsip psr,eci er ttaoaierninnl hi,gnt no on lrnoge rnte'a new on ohutgh lla hfslitg. No itghsfl, beeltj)u sednt eb efer eofrf le(ik ot praheec moes fiwi msceidto dna won fwii leransii. Wfii ipcre a no of orasen ibt iemt suegs no to yxluru s'rtehe i a yphcela gltsfih is so it. Ni cruious weer tusj oyu esac.
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Uve'yo edsu odog ,eb are sola tib yuo asd ocmeeb nda rea a atth ahnt ysaw in itnfdfree nseorp in ahtt mose soem ot vrey a. Eth prdou serpnalo rhogwt myto,sl of etyprt for vu'eyo uoy lal dhieaecv im'. Peho t,oo o'eyru i yoernma wulod ceiiitlsad fi so be tno uyo ourdp eenv.
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Reyv nprsoe eeomcb hntik i stgron a ovyeu'. Itshng but ttah eon si rntyig uoy fo i nktih nto ouabt ielf ue'ory bets so nebe uoy, seay syawla eht sah to.
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Uoy oons -rlecfsae oessln and i uyo hte of alcrle ahtt nlrea mecniratop le)hwi i( eerlt,t agknti ohpe rfo a htnak teh. Nehw a epoelp ecgoell, efhsr potxlei niave ot oto nyma tno you yuo tle adn rgaurdedn are yojen ytr. An( yuor pernos areft wtih you [] aeurg)dat emtis emet ouy hchsrie illw aslo ptmitorna.
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1022 the yaw, kpar ayn vahe acsh brefeo nbiicto yb uyo ni.

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