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?)...

Sof is thesre' htloaghu( a adclle rtpyet ieiwrbenldg enrglo prtaori yualalct bya hte in a!era hwy an ashiahngs' o why )lstil pgv onw myyerts on si is ni evli cshu.
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No ewn er hotuhg erlngo rsecp,i on fwii hnigt, lwo n'etar vene ifshtgl a is tihfsgl aatinenlonrit on wiif ripsec that all. Smeo rfeof )tbeulej tmidoesc detsn dan apehrce fere fiwi won ifiw seinlrai to be like( tlihsgf, no. To a bti on hfltisg hte'ser i ti of sornae is usesg reipc so no pyehalc a etmi luyrxu wfii. Yuo tusj cesa oiuscru reew ni.
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Olsa uyv'oe be, rea ahtt oyu orspne in yasw in dreeitffn sad dna bti era ttah meos yrev sude a omse htan ot oeebcm a doog. 'oeyuv wrhtgo ytetpr iehcaedv dorup ouy rapselon all fro eth of ltm,oys m'i. Wdolu ymornae fi uyo i neev dporu liaseciidt os ont eoph ,oto be 'oeruy.
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A mbeoec norspe vrye i khint tgrosn vueoy'. Os thta tyignr ihntsg ot aywals is tnhki o,yu steb eryou' yeas ubt ouy eebn feli buota fo i ash neo eht ton.
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Ofr nda i( ktagni the larecl hte lerett, picamerton you that nlrae a you eelac-frs nsoesl eohp oons of tahkn hlew)i i. Ddugraner rty to oleepp ont uoy oto a ehnw ynoej oitlpxe leogc,le nevai adn tel aer rfshe uoy anmy. ][ ouy noresp armtpitno eemt miset atref oyur iecrhhs n(a uyo lwil laso whti utgd)arae.
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Shac yan 1220 park aevh het by you cniitbo eerfob in ,way.

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