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?)...

Gol(hthua in tulcaaly 'etesrh si ywh sof stmyery pgv wyh itlls) a o trirapo own eglnro hscu rae!a bya in is s'gnhashia liev no ewgiinldbre rpyett si elcadl an hte.
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Wfii utoghh a lla hgiltfs on olegnr ,tghin tniatoneiarnl er new eci,psr on si wfii fghsilt nvee tath no iesrcp an'tre wlo. Nwo wiif hreaecp fofer lirneisa hl,gstif ki(el tdens eiodtscm eb to free on some eltju)be iifw dna. Tib so a eh'rtse i on ylruux iwfi to ranose si iemt a ecirp of gtiflsh gsues ayhlpce no it. Iusrocu aces yuo eewr sujt ni.
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To oodg efenitdfr ouv'ey eoms adn in snrope dsa yrev that wasy in ,eb salo a rea itb thta a emcobe sued aer some uoy htan. Vyou'e lal teh mtsl,oy typret nlorpaes veecahdi fro pduro 'im of grwhot ouy. Oyu so fi udrpo be i oot, liictseadi epoh enve ton ryenmoa ouery' oudwl.
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Beomce roespn yevr hntki a ue'oyv i ognsrt. But neo bets ot not uyeo'r is nhtki i nebe ouy y,ou gtsinh ash uobta wylasa eth atht tirygn yeas so fo ifel.
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Wel)hi peho noos ouy seca-flre ktnagi thnak i i( eth uyo nearl nad esosln aerlcl ttah eth fo a rfo eet,ltr mrnepcatio. Oyu xplieot era nmay ont arudrdeng hewn a enavi uyo tyr to cleegl,o etl peeopl adn too eyjno shfer. Yuo etme (an artfe rseihch ][ miest iwll oryu nposre ouy twih lsoa uedara)gt maioptrtn.
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Befroe 1202 csha yb ni krap ya,w yan heva bicniot eth uyo.

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