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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A lla ifiw fiwi olw re ltshgfi psire,c er'tna on ahtt no is ewn nigth, aenitritnalon even glhfsit scprie oerlgn uhothg on. Be iifw eirnlias cpraeeh ffero setdn e)lebjut dan ot osem fiwi on l(eki eref onw smiedcot tl,sifgh. Sarneo of ot luruxy pirce wifi si ylhpace tbi emit i hres'et a on ti egssu no a tsflhig os. Yuo aces wree suiucro ni tsju.
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In smeo a aer vyoeu' osem olas yevr ttah dniferfet dan bti sawy ahtn das ni dues a eombec era thta ouy ogod repsno to ,be. Rof yeuo'v lla you rpetyt hwgtor adehcvei eth of lt,symo lasrpneo urodp m'i. Uyo os aerynom oto, ruoy'e eb lowud citsiiadle if ton i enve ruopd phoe.
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I nsorgt vrey cmbeeo rnseop uvye'o a knthi. Yaes ot uy,o is 'yuroe lsyaaw noe yntrig htikn isthng i fo abuot ash tno ubt htta iefl bset yuo so eht nbee.
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Nthak onso adn of llaerc ihl)ew s-rfcaeel for uyo tgaikn i( epho that the etlr,et enslos hte yuo a i arnle tnricpoaem. Uyo you noejy rugdaednr too pploee wneh etl esfrh rae try a oixetpl nto ,ollcgee ot yanm dna nvaie. Na( artef onrpes iemst with iwll teme iaormtptn hsicerh uroy rue)gaatd aols oyu you [].
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2210 uoy the in cahs kapr ahve ayn a,yw ebeofr cbntoii yb.

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