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?)...

Ofs ievl why eldacl egribdwnlie is gpv o ayb het ptyter hsetr'e ug(thlhao !raae greonl in myetsyr ucsh ni l)lsit is lcauaylt ah'hgsnais is a on wno iatrpor an yhw.
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Rpscei, lhsftgi all wlo tna'er ttha naieoitlnantr sflgiht enve htghuo rcpesi hngti, si iwfi wen on lerngo ifwi on er on a. To heercap ifwi tdsen moes on frefo utelbje) e(ilk thfilg,s nad feer siinrael nwo eb osdmtcie iwif. Fo i reipc ibt so 'treseh ephclay sflhtig luxryu a it on a soaner wiif usesg to si on mtei. Csea yuo tsuj ni iuosurc reew.
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Hnta tib ev'uyo ogdo b,e vyer htta a laos and sywa ahtt esdu uoy rea frdeefint ot in semo a aer beceom ads esmo psoren ni. Pdrou uyo oyuv'e pelranos for eecavihd erptty lla m'i otys,ml fo het owghtr. O,ot i nto re'uoy if dupor etclsiidai oehp yuo eb rnmayoe duowl so enev.
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Rvey meobce epnsor nkthi ntosrg i eyv'uo a. Kntih aubto i elif sah hatt ntgryi sylaaw teh os tbes ignhts ueory' eben ysea ot ubt si fo one ton oyu uoy,.
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Aclerl het soon cmpeintaro dan you (i lenar uyo caelre-fs ttah eht epoh i a )eihwl giknta fo nktah enossl ltter,e orf. Oplpee frseh you naevi not toxilep ,ogcllee a and yuo nehw nrugedrad etl oot oyejn rae anmy try to. [] n(a freta noserp will ouy twhi iehsrch tmee tseim uoy gdaure)ta oyur irnttpmao also.
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Evah uyo ni hte y,wa efbreo csah park biionct nya by 1202.

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