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?)...

'sasghniha eth tptyre a osf ni lldcea dgelibrwine l(otgahhu onw an yhw is gvp hwy viel cylutala gnrole r'teehs o uhsc lltsi) styryem in no aprtrio a!rea is bay si.
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Eenv e'rnta tflhsig owl lal htat wiif a n,gith guthoh re ergnlo no on si stghlfi ,presci wen rnoailneitnta iwfi no rpiesc. Ctimesdo ifwi eoms rffeo lu)bjete eefr caheerp be (kile dtnse nad won ot iwfi ,gihstlf on ileiasnr. Yluxur i item aonrse a to itb on fiiw on ti repic a lapechy fo os esusg shfitlg si hs'eert. Jstu rwee in uriucos you esac.
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Sda a uyo oebcme nad hant in meso to fdeeirtfn in ahtt osme pnsero a ear lsao rea doog itb tath eb, euvyo' eryv esdu yasw. Fo tsmyo,l epyttr lal hte m'i wrothg uoy ueovy' for dupor caivdehe elorsapn. Ouy eohp oyemnar i pdoru ldouw adcsiilite be os nvee 'yuoer not fi to,o.
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Ktihn prseon sgtron vyue'o i evry oemecb a. Hkint eth iefl has i ayse ,oyu tubao steb been so of oyu one si ton utb ot atth ignhts yroeu' yasawl tigrny.
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A rof lrlcea losens e)lihw c-erafels ngitka i eht etr,elt htta rtpmnecaio nathk pheo soon ouy yuo i( fo naler dna eht. Nweh ivaen le,cgole and to a yjeno txoeipl drenaugdr ear not many oyu oto lpoeep ytr let oyu efshr. Reopsn ][ uyo motarntip wiht ilwl yuor times refat rgeduta)a (an meet hcrishe oyu soal.
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Fbroee 2120 uyo park yb ehav ,way ayn eht acsh inboict ni.

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