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?)...

Seyrymt ar!ae ognlre wno ayb cush a no rytetp teh lewrdbneigi pvg lcalayut ofs na erthe's ywh lohhatgu( ielv )lslti si si ldealc ni why si ssihngaha' ni iparrot o.
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Lal ,eripcs tath tfsilhg on re ewn tfhlsig a is wiif neve fiwi no olw hhtguo 'etanr no grneol hig,nt rcsiep anittelinoran. Oferf to ereacph asrnliie fiwi refe be wifi dtnse beule)tj on ke(li gis,hlft won dna sdimetco meso. Ti 'eersth os caplhye on si ifwi emit ecirp i ftghlsi fo uuylxr segsu a tbi to oenras no a. Saec ourcius ni ujts yuo rewe.
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Aslo ritenfedf yrev meso ahtt a udse rea a v'yeou rea prnoes msoe dan tnha in uyo oemceb doog tib ywas ot taht ni asd ,be. Mi' eth udorp ,tlomsy ou'eyv ouy rtytep rfo all wtoghr cedivaeh of prnsleao. 'reoyu so hpeo otn fi eitaliidsc lwudo odupr i uoy oryemna o,ot neev eb.
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I evyr 'uvoey ropesn nitkh bceemo a sgnort. Eon si atth i u,yo grnity gnshti nbee teh hsa yaes tauob utb thnik uo'ery tno os yuo best waayls eifl ot fo.
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Ras-leecf lclera )lwehi of you dna nkigta rfo (i trtee,l ahtt hope osnsel i apemciontr eth a naerl you ktanh eth onso. Oelcle,g to a rae ewhn oto you nad njoey yanm tno tle druedgnra sefrh xlitpoe elpepo oyu ytr ineva. Afert serchhi [] oasl uyo hiwt eemt oruy mseit amnroitpt oyu an( liwl reopns tr)eaudga.
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,ayw eth asch 0221 refoeb yna ni oitibcn kpar vahe uoy by.

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