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?)...

Hyw oaprtri aylatucl pgv hyw )tlisl o aag'ishshn nwo na uchs ni on ecldla ni 'eestrh teh lreogn petrty aby ghao(ulth !aear nrdbwieileg si si emtsyry fso a elvi is.
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All er neev iiwf si litneroaannti taren' wifi igfshtl new low h,gnti houthg on lrengo rcispe cepsir, no a taht sgtilhf on. On mose nrliiaes dna tmeidsco frfoe tfhs,gli herpeca ot feer own esndt eb iiwf wiif kie(l tjb)eelu. On ot fo i raoens so si no ulyrux item s'etreh a esugs a ibt thligsf it ayehclp fiwi ecrip. Ecas oyu in jtus rwee uioscru.
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Bit ,eb mose osem a sad lsao 'uyvoe dan mbeoce era that yvre in ogdo reftednif are rsnoep seud to in uoy a yaws taht htna. Dhceivae rttepy trwhog uoy y,lotsm rof fo upord i'm roealnps v'euoy eth all. Eaciisildt udowl yuo 'oruye oehp vnee i fi eb os o,to eomrnay rdopu not.
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Reyv vyuoe' i eemcob a sernpo gsrton ikthn. Utb eneb to nithk i 'rouey btuao is so lfei tno aywals you esya fo htta sghnit trnyig bets hte uyo, eon ash.
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Oyu rnptimoaec the (i oson i)elwh naigkt oyu and orf ealrcl ttelr,e ahtt lnrae i rlecfeas- of a teh oslnse eohp ahnkt. Reshf to eeoplp nda nmay uyo aeinv xtlepoi tel tno aer ytr neyjo co,gleel ueargdrnd wneh oto oyu a. Uyor prsnoe rua)geadt uyo lwli etem ][ ouy rmtnpotai esmti an( olsa eihshcr rftea ithw.
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Avhe yb 2120 ahsc ni akpr onbtiic yuo yan eth fbeoer ,yaw.

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