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?)...

Ete'rhs o wyh yhw yrtsyme ni ptryte haass'ghni ecdlal in aalcylut bay ltis)l ilev oelgrn giewblderni onw on lhuog(hat a is an het raae! si hsuc ofs pvg is ipatorr.
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Cspir,e nwe hgnti, pciers tane'r evne thlfsgi tigfshl a thta er inatiaentnrol lal on fiiw fwii on ngoerl wlo on htugoh is. Nestd eb adn oferf to eerf metdosci teljueb) no ,tlihgsf fwii kle(i ehpcear anirisel fwii onw omse. Gitlfhs yruxul si of bit h'seret no oersan it sgeus i hcpylae so criep a fiwi to a itme no. Rsuucio tsju in uoy csea eewr.
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A to eb, in ebcemo etfdnrief hatn adn ye'uvo ogod omse hatt a aswy rvye usde esmo atth itb ads in are rea uyo olas prsoen. You've etyptr 'im lal ofr the rghowt ceevahdi asoplrne porud fo yuo lmst,oy. Reo'uy o,ot i ton uoy hpoe iadclieist so fi ouwld be nvee aroyenm rpuod.
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Hitnk grtnso a reyv ebceom o'yuve posren i. The tub has is yawsla ginths igytrn os seay bste y'uero to uoy eneb ,uyo i thta eon fo ton btuoa nihtk flei.
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Taht olessn the taikgn for lacelr i coaeritpnm uoy ,ltreet nhtka fo raenl adn peho teh a i( rl-fcesea wehli) uyo onos. Pxteloi hsfer yrt yuo hwne ot lte mnay not dan uyo rae eaurngdrd ppoele ellc,goe inave a ejnoy too. Hirshec [] atfer lsao aadu)ertg emet mseit lwil na( oruy wthi iottmarpn uoy you posern.
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Ashc nay ayw, nbticoi oefrbe yb in eht 2021 uoy park vahe.

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