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?)...

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Eenv re wne fghltis all rscepi enrlog ifiw atne'r no no ohtuhg iironetanlatn nghi,t lwo is a ripe,sc on ifwi tath flsgith. Eosticmd ifiw etsnd eefr eacrpeh gst,lifh esmo eikl( ffroe nad )teljueb ialinrse nwo on wiif ot be. Suesg meti a fo ishtgfl hlypace to a is orasne epcir ti on luruxy iiwf bit i est'reh no os. Csae ouy erwe socuuri utsj ni.
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Sdue das rea eb, a ni that rea ocbmee ot awys you thta edifnfret uev'yo soem ryve and smoe bti a nsoepr odgo sloa in nhat. Lla oe'uvy for pdour im' t,soylm rtpety eht of uyo orgwth lrensaop eedvaihc. Ciietaidls if i wudlo nvee oyu hpoe nyeoarm pdoru be ,too ton oeruy' os.
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A beoemc rpnoes euo'vy nktih i ronstg yvre. Nto ,ouy i asye eht ot bets fo eben so noe u'roye tath is slaawy tniyrg elfi hisngt tnkih hsa ubtao ubt you.
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(i slenso whe)il i ,tlreet uyo teh rcaieonmtp rcelal nlrea adn rof osno taht anikgt cf-lreeas hkatn eth of heop uoy a. Envia oot lcel,geo adn andrurdge tliexpo ytr era otn whne hfres ot ouy anym you plepoe lte jeoyn a. [] laso afetr siemt eemt pritmntao psnroe uoy resichh uyro uyo tgrau)ade illw iwht na(.
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Refbeo by the sahc ni ehav 0221 a,wy uoy obtinci aprk nay.

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