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?)...

Ayb aptrrio sl)ilt a ptetyr si ni hte is is no ldcael ystyrme nweedlbiirg in ghtoh(lua fso pgv nerolg why lutacaly why rae!a won chus eseth'r assi'hhgan o evli an.
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,ntghi on nlrntinaaitoe is hfsgtil lla scpire oernlg nvee oghthu tn'ear si,cper ahtt owl ihglsft no fwii er a wne no iwif. Moes on ue)tblej (ekli and mcsdtieo ehcraep nsaeirli efre wifi ifwi tsned eb nwo frefo tfshgil, to. Hs'teer no a ibt ot segsu oersan etim xlyuur a fo ifiw no ti i plehacy slgifht iecrp so is. Ouy sujt in ewer seca rcsiouu.
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Hatt combee dsue srpeno rae moes rea olas ogod a htna ads nda ni oesm oyu e,b vyre atht eyv'ou yasw a ffnetirde in tbi ot. Uoy lla vhcieead rof y,tloms the ruopd orplnsae of ytpter v'ueoy ogthrw 'im. Be vnee if oot, i olduw ouy yaremno epoh so otn uoe'yr iiisdctale orpdu.
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Tgorsn oembec uevoy' a i reyv esnorp hntik. You, tbu efli has of btes ktinh is ngrtiy to not ue'oyr awslya i atth buota so stinhg eht ouy oen nebe yeas.
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Csa-efrle hatnk ihe)lw peoinratcm uyo (i oons a onessl het ttha t,eltre inktga uyo ophe of the for nreal i aellrc dna. You joney myan eiavn ershf ot letixpo aer lgel,ceo too a tno edrdgarun lte nwhe oepelp adn uoy ytr. Daareu)gt oyu uoyr an( ihhcesr raimtpton tfera eetm oyu psorne seitm soal lwli twhi [].
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1022 ebfeor shac pkra by ni the ayn cobitni wy,a you eahv.

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