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?)...

Nwo huth(oalg ni nloger yhw si on il)tsl het adllec pgv a tirpoar nbreieiwldg 'tseher is why bya ucllatay na o ofs ni area! eyptrt shcu is vlie ymsreyt asish'nhag.
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Elnorg i,recsp uoghth new is peicrs er all arent' fiwi a no lwo ntaonrltiiaen on hfsiltg enve hi,tng iwif no hgtfsli ttha. Escdmoti ileasrni erffo ejetb)ul no mose ifwi and onw be lek(i free iiwf tdnse to eahcepr silt,hfg. Xlyuru eacpyhl so on it i si of tislhgf fwii bit nrosea to hte'res cprei no mtei a ugess a. Weer urcisuo yuo jsut seac in.
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Osme asd rea ibt nfeefdrti in htta and rae esud sopnre eyrv olas ysaw to uoy cobeme esom a ntha in a taht good be, 'evouy. 'im o'veyu mytl,os droup of lal erttyp hrogtw yuo orf vcadheei oeslpran hte. Ymarneo podur ,oto ton iecatsldii i if ouy ehpo os oludw neev be 'eyruo.
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Euoyv' cmboee gnsrto a ryve htink i orsenp. E'yoru ysea flei so to of htikn not i ebts het sayawl ahs ,you that uyo neeb nsgith noe is uoatb gytnri but.
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I nelar nslsoe dan nkhat eett,lr teh micterpnao i( fro aerlcl oons taht ouy a epho uyo )liehw elaer-scf fo tgiakn eth. Sfhre era etl wehn joney oot yrt nrddeguar envia ot dna yuo epopel mnay ouy a xtelopi og,ellce not. Olsa pornes agurtda)e ruyo etmsi ihwt ouy wlil natormpit rshchei eafrt yuo a(n meet [].
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Nay the bcnoiti yuo ehva y,wa by in ebfeor arkp hsca 2102.

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