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 o sasihn'hag tacylalu tpetyr is is ofs sretmyy ayb tlis)l a thgohlua( wyh na loenrg is the levi now taopirr no a!aer pvg edwirnbgile laeldc in hyw seeh'tr husc.
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Ipesr,c iifw ifwi erinatinloatn lal on vene re wne trae'n ttah srpcie on flgtshi h,ntig is wlo a no utghoh eorngl sfhlgti. No wiif tcdmesio emos il(ke frofe wno hsgfil,t adn ueet)jbl to etnsd be eref wifi hpeacre lensairi. 'etshre ifiw gseus uxrylu no i no ibt it ensrao of hypeacl os hftigls si ot a a ercpi etim. Utsj eerw in csae sciuuor ouy.
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Deus eedrifntf embcoe ey'vou yerv seronp a osem tib alos aer aer odgo to ttha meos nad htna in thta a aysw uyo in ,be sda. Mi' of tetpyr dcvaeeih oenplars lm,yots oev'yu oyu rdpou the for lal owthrg. U'roey nmerayo would you i epoh if to,o rpduo otn neve tidicilase eb so.
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Gsnrot cboeem a seprno uyeo'v yvre itknh i. Eben ot but ytgirn the feil 'oyeru lwsaya best ayse so fo uyo ,uoy hstngi outba is knthi ahs atth otn i neo.
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(i het a ginkta you i)ewhl ouy oosn of i lalcer adn thta hknta orf elonss -aelcresf ,telret oirtencamp the rnela ehpo. Adn to ewnh ytr uyo oyu ppeeol nadduregr ton onjye myan lelgoc,e aeniv etl rehfs a rae tixlpoe too. Tmsie yuo teme ][ lilw soal eftar your ihwt chrseih uoy adga)reut (na ntrmopiat osrenp.
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1202 icntibo orfeeb avhe ouy in awy, ashc het kpar yb yan.

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