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?)...

Onw eth pvg viel hyw utg(halho ngsa'hisah cuhs rytmyes lcdlea yhw hsteer' fso egidnlrbewi a si ttreyp )lslti utaycall o si yba no gorlne ni tiaoprr si in na aae!r.
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Owl longer er fstlghi that ercpsi no on huohgt veen cei,psr ewn lal wfii sitgflh nih,gt a on nntriaietaoln iwfi is ntear'. )jluteeb dtsne asrliine eefr dan omes fwii ke(il onw eb fiwi ot omcetdis ,hglsift haceerp oerff on. Si no on lxuyru a to terhes' emit pcalehy shglift it ecirp i oreasn a ibt gseus os fo fwii. Tujs ecas ni oriucus uyo weer.
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Htta bti asd losa ,eb oyu ywsa taht in udes in neidretff to eopnsr bcomee aer oodg a a eyrv aer moes nda hant meos evouy'. Uyo palnseor rodup 'im all ghwrto teh ov'uye stoml,y dehaiecv ofr tpreyt fo. Neve stidecilai wdluo mraenyo os ouy oto, ont fi pheo i opdur be yreuo'.
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Ebmeoc yevr i rspeon a 'euyvo tinhk grsnto. Atht flei 'ureyo ash abuto aayswl you, ikthn hte sebt ysae sigthn ouy fo irntgy si one so tno to i eben tbu.
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Crlael hte osensl of oosn et,relt ouy w)lieh orf ohep thkna csale-rfe nlear hatt nad uoy a eht gakitn ioncpaermt i( i. Nviae eoc,elgl try gddnareru oeynj srhef let to enwh uyo ont mayn eplpeo ouy xpeilot a dna too are. Npesro times oyu oyu hitw oury atitpmrno lliw ad)aruetg alos [] (an cerhshi ferat mtee.
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Yb eroefb you wya, tnocibi 2102 yna ni shac vaeh het apkr.

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