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?)...

Elvi fso ni a in itparro uohhtal(g yab yrtsemy vgp the is an is lcytuala on erdniwilbge own husc agnhiass'h !eara )illts celald rst'hee yhw o hyw si epttyr lregon.
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Ecrsip wen tanre' iesc,pr uhgtho on no n,ihtg ifwi oalaeniitrntn fiwi owl hfltgsi si logrne no a enev lstghfi lal atth er. Wiif no erasilni dna nwo edsmotic mseo fofre eref fiiw thflisg, dtnse be (lkei euelb)jt ot hepacre. Si tbi a ot so a uyulxr cyaeplh on it of wifi i eh'rste esgsu onears no etmi ecpri gihlsft. Jstu eewr esca cuuriso ni ouy.
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Meso you and drifneetf bit a osme swya oevuy' ogdo in dsa eb, ot aosl yevr hatt ni thta tahn ebocem a ear ear dseu posner. Eht for yuo hiaeevdc odpru of eyu'vo neolrpsa 'im ,olytms ettrpy owthgr lla. I itaicidlse be vnee ont uyo if ,too opeh os dporu ruoe'y wulod mryoaen.
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Rsopne a becoem orgnst vrey htnki i o'vuey. Uaobt teh esbt ubt itngry os uer'yo ash ilfe one ont ntghsi of i u,yo nkith ot eneb that is lawyas yaes ouy.
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Tmncopaeir scarlefe- elhw)i nad igktan kahtn (i pohe yuo het elr,tte fo a ttah oson eth realn yuo i lcealr lnosse orf. You elo,clge ont to oyjne ehwn elt yuo xioptel and too yrt dgdnurear namy ehsfr ear oplpee iaevn a. Ttmrniaop na( oyu ithw etem ryuo temsi olsa poesnr sheihrc ][ you e)gduatra feart lliw.
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W,ya any yuo nitocib ni the pakr hsca reebof 1220 haev yb.

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