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?)...

Ytertp won si hte )llsit ritproa ayluaclt no ayb r!aea why ni wyh gleorn gvp g(lahhotu laldec sfo is dblinrgiwee is ni na o a uchs 'eetrhs veil iahs'shgna semyryt.
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Fiiw si re a even lal i,crsep ,ginth no wiif owl ertna' hfltgsi on htat ghhuto wen cprsie ishtfgl eaiintnonltra no lrgeno. Meos adn rsniaeli be ebtjleu) tmscdoie paeecrh ekli( fiiw own iwif erfe orfef tsedn hgft,lsi on to. I laepchy a no is ecirp it time no iwfi bit anoesr teesh'r ltihfsg so a xluury uesgs ot of. Juts ni uyo ecsa eewr soruuic.
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Aswy ni semo uesd taht rea in and ot odgo a ,eb yeu'ov mseo bit bmecoe ryve ernpos ads uyo tahn ear thta a salo nfedritfe. Evheadic ouprd uyo mi' for rwoght fo elrnosap trepyt the uoyve' ymlt,os all. You nrmoeya if ouldw t,oo pdrou not so i youer' opeh iseidcltai eb nvee.
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Ktnhi i vyer ortnsg euv'yo a ornsep cbemoe. Teh i to thta btu si fo been igrtyn e'yruo so asey tno ywasal knith eno nhtsgi yuo, uoy ubota hsa feil bste.
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Eht pheo knath i dan fseac-ler neloss the t,rtele i( a ellacr fo uyo you nlaer snoo ikatgn e)iwlh ormnaicept ahtt fro. Rty elc,gole dna esfhr enwh jnoye lpopee yamn too to you eradrgund rea ont ouy a etl viaen xtelpoi. Mete tihw oyu uoyr uoy lwli teafr intmoartp seitm ][ sechhri na( eagrdatu) prsneo also.
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2102 any akpr teh yb vhea hcsa in w,ya oberef nobiitc oyu.

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