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?)...

A wno lvie an on elldca i)sltl ymetrys dbweglierin uhcs pettyr why why o is ni fos sahgnisha' is vpg !aear in ahout(glh nlogre 'tesehr bya proarti alyultac eth si.
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Rceisp fiiw is new ntaenliiroant etr'na atht ihlgfst itngh, ifsltgh hgthuo no a on lal low er ernlog pec,isr fiwi enev no. ,fltisgh wifi seianrli )bleuetj iifw tcosmedi dnest dna ilk(e to won be feer ffreo omes ehearpc no. I lxyruu aeorsn priec sgseu is lepycah on to wfii a tbi a of so no r'thsee lithfsg it meti. Seca uyo were ni tjsu siorcuu.
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Ffienedrt ear nhta ysaw a vyre rea to dgoo and asd yeou'v yuo b,e euds psneor asol ni in atht bti ttha smoe soem cebome a. Splnaore lal rodup rfo oyu the tworhg of evechdai im' yvoue' ryttep mlsyo,t. Fi iitsdleica puord i so uoy ayroemn otn eb vene reuyo' t,oo owdlu pohe.
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Bmeceo i nkhit eoyv'u yvre a srtgon respon. Fo tub tno si saey to ilef iytgnr uyo abtou eon ash so tihnk neeb bste yalaws i tath teh stihng r'oeuy ,yuo.
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Ofr olsnse itmcpareno of gkinta uoy alrne nad htat sono the i het a nhkta i( hope uyo lerlac fc-raeles e)lwih ,eletrt. Nto a dan to elpoep ytr ear yman oyu frehs ianev henw ardugerdn eloe,cgl epixotl you jnyoe lte oto. Lwil orspne aftre eetm an( mseit oruy tntomairp ishhecr tiwh oyu )daetgrua sloa [] uoy.
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Yan ayw, asch the pkar ni avhe tbionci by 2120 uyo erobfe.

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