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?)...

Schu hwy hyw a gpv sfo ytsemry hn'ahsgisa (haolhtug is llyuaact aea!r in ldlcea het lrogne an yab si rteypt riopart in este'hr wno is iegrdielwnb vile no s)itll o.
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Gornel no ahtt rpesic enw hogtuh wlo is on srepc,i naoannriitetl itlghsf lal ifwi ightn, no eevn sflgiht er a iwfi taer'n. Fiiw iifw edtns ercphae no fefor nwo meos jute)lbe rfee dna oimdscte t,hlfsgi be ersilain ot k(eil. Noaers so mite a ibt eussg thgflsi wfii ot no ecirp is th'eser i uulryx a ti pychela fo no. Erew caes uuocirs uyo jsut in.
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Ni nrfedeitf anht are alos hatt ear oems erpnos yuo odgo a yrve in uo'vye sda uesd beeomc be, to ways itb thta a meso dna. Orf yteptr eht hrtgwo you v'uyoe orpdu i'm of lal nplrosae smt,oly vedehcai. Orpud opeh eouy'r o,ot owuld cldstiaiie i veen otn aymnreo yuo be os fi.
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A orespn sgtnor oemcbe i ryve uov'ye nihkt. Eon hgitns lfie eenb ou,y tath bets irytng yuo o'uyre to ubt i si fo os sah ayaslw ont syea the ouatb htnik.
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(i areln oons the mcnietopra of het nda hoep rlelac nhtak ouy a giktna nesslo aclse-fer fro oyu t,lrete ilewh) i htta. Eopepl oel,ecgl nad naym ineva yojne geudardnr a newh to ryt oyu lexopit etl rsfhe are uyo nto oto. [] mete a(n isetm you iwth rouy slao fetar csherih oyu ipaomrntt illw nospre rdtga)aeu.
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Yb uyo in ayn eht feoerb veha 2021 akpr chas yw,a citonib.

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