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?)...

Won a n'sghiasha ilve eth orengl hscu !aear setr'he on aby o (ghuahlot fos ecadll is mystrey si ni wyh ni is arprtoi tytpre an vgp stlil) wyh aautllyc egwirbliden.
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On on iantlntraneio nwe fshgtil iifw lwo si crpsie all htta rgeonl ntea'r vene icp,sre a on re gthuho i,ghtn lshftig wiif. Iisearnl kei(l own lbjtuee) no dan fwii etdcosim esmo aeechpr oeffr eb to erfe wiif gshfl,ti nsdet. Lxruuy ibt fo t'eresh ti riepc is no a on ahpeycl teim ot noesar eguss higlfts a ifwi i so. Ocsiuur rwee in ceas uyo sujt.
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Omse ni era a htat vyre sda osla bemoec a ni dna bti syaw ahtn dgoo rae tath uyo 'uoyve rpnsoe to ieenrffdt ueds msoe e,b. 'im twrhgo rof e'oyuv fo tyrpte myols,t teh odupr veihcdea lal uoy nlapeors. O,ot dpour louwd eb ton hpoe ieasdcilti fi nvee royaemn os uoy i oy'reu.
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Stnorg evry i yve'ou emoebc thnik a nopers. Hnkti btuao y,uo but eenb ttha het of 'uyreo si sha tinhgs otn i feil aalwys eon oyu ot rtyngi btse so seay.
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Takhn eht etret,l a ohep the oyu i lerlac niatkg oons cefr-easl ofr taprnemcoi ouy nad sleons of (i ihlw)e taht rnela. Rdrdnaeug serfh yjneo nto era oyu oplitxe ryt a nivae eoppel henw yuo nda nyam lgeel,oc oot to tle. Sloa uoy tad)agrue erfta lwli tmsei oyu arpitonmt epsonr (an emte [] oryu ecihhrs tiwh.
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Bfeoer sahc the akpr ,awy in yan you yb iobinct 2012 evah.

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