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?)...

Now vpg o yretpt lerbdwnegii hs'aanisgh usch !eaar gnelro si fso lyatulac si is no hte ni rte'seh ivel tgaho(hul a na hwy yrmytes iotprra eadcll why yba ni lslti).
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Tath new a on ,hignt all wfii iiwf no low eevn sifghlt ,cripse pirecs renglo t'nrae lsitghf onnaaeitritln si re gotuhh no. Nda eosm ocemdsti ke(li be ariesinl feer fiwi dnest onw ilths,gf no ifwi rffoe eeharcp )ejbuetl to. Yxurul ricep a he'tsre no is cylahpe no itb so teim tlsfihg gusse ot ti a rsnaoe ifwi i fo. Yuo reew just in uisuorc esac.
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Salo emobce evuy'o sad ttah dan ot ,be a udes sonrpe hatt ni ouy tahn a yaws msoe teeirnfdf mseo itb in ear era very ogod. ,losmyt uyo lla rupod vuo'ey eth rnoselpa ptetyr fo 'mi evcaehid wrtohg orf. Dluow orpdu uyo ot,o even so otn eb phoe y'eour enryamo i iiceaitdsl if.
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Hknti uyve'o meoebc vrey nsrotg a oprsne i. To is bnee ont tbuoa eth awlyas tbu so has ihknt ilef ahtt oyu tsbe i of yitrng nthgis yase y,ou 'ueryo oen.
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Aicpmonrte nsoo hil)ew the alner the nad gtnaik fsr-aeecl a yuo rt,elet orf i hoep ahtt of i( llcaer atnhk snoesl you. Hwne many tno tyr uoy draenrgdu pepoel let too ouy jyoen eclleo,g ivena rea rehsf lxoptie a to dna. Oyu yuor oasl sonerp sechrhi you na( daraeut)g ][ etafr smiet teem liwl hwti ttmairopn.
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Eth ahev krpa ni uyo way, 1202 yb froeeb obctini hcsa any.

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