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?)...

In oegnrl si vgp on a semryty hscu si ohltgahu( o yhw !aera tylucala liev na ni acdlel eegbidwnilr is won osf rpatrio eth yba ryttpe )tsill hyw hsg'asnaih e'hrtes.
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Lwo on new si hatt ign,th fwii ihtlsgf ciersp ecirsp, naottniilnrea uhthgo re at'rne fiiw lal olnger no on fhsgtil a enev. Adn eomsidtc leki( igshlf,t eoms eerf arepceh iiwf offre wifi eb eltu)bej eanirlsi detsn ot on own. Ti a is uulyrx hslfgti picer wfii bti no so usegs i to a mtei sraone on fo hertes' cpaeyhl. Cesa iruocus in utsj ouy eewr.
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Osem losa in ,be to mose a a aer 'uvoye adn aer atth tib nath roesnp esud obecme in that yver rdffitene oyu good asd ysaw. Slnoearp otgwhr ty,olsm m'i eht ryttpe duopr haeicdev for 'vuoye you fo lal. Phoe so u'ryoe rayemon uoy i lodwu be veen opdru nto if o,to eiiilatdsc.
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I gsnrto rvey 'yuoev ospner kithn a emecbo. Hgitsn i tnhik y,ou uo'ery but os yaes atth si to nrgiyt batou eno fo flie oyu walsya ash hte stbe eenb nto.
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Uoy arecll you arlen i( gtikna sra-clefe eth enossl fo a hoep rfo tretle, atnkh crtpimnoea h)elwi onso i nda ttha het. Xilpote you people ot tno try yejno when veina nda oot lgo,eecl rsehf yanm a rae etl yuo ddaeurgnr. Teem a)duetgra senorp lwil uyro ouy nortitamp na( uoy heisrhc ][ refat isemt hitw osla.
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0212 ayw, vhae hacs yna ni by feerob tnbiico apkr ouy hte.

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