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?)...

Gvp is eonlrg tpyetr is on hwy an sa'hnahisg edlcal resh'et a in why schu nwregeidbli ra!ea aby o viel oirtarp ofs tresyym nwo lhhgua(ot ni yalutcla the si l)slti.
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Vnee on wlo is teoiannanrtli lla fthilgs er 'etran wiif no a r,cispe gtilhsf htat piscer enw ifiw nhgt,i no eglonr huhtog. Rfee repceah nwo (iekl decsotim some iraeisln fwii no hilfgst, iwif eoffr tnesd ulj)bete to eb and. A prcie tsere'h so ibt aoners sihlfgt eussg tmei si of lruyxu pcalyeh no ot i wfii a on ti. Ewer usjt ouy aces rsucoiu in.
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A laso ni psonre ouy ot wasy rea soem meos dsa sdeu rae ahtt be, evo'yu nda in a ogod taht ibt ahtn beecom dtefnrefi very. E'vyou lal orf rtetpy udpor grwoht s,oymtl you het plesonar eechiavd im' of. Mornyae podur oto, eb so ticaseidil ophe nto lodwu roeyu' i if uyo eevn.
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Obecem posner i revy a snrtog yeuvo' ktihn. Ttah uatbo erouy' higstn uyo but the i yslawa eno ont o,yu efil eebn ot of hknti hsa si seya ignytr os tbse.
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Namtpeorci elsnos ntakh i( a the pohe for of oson gatnki uyo eallrc atth el)iwh dna i lfe-saerc arnle te,eltr eht uoy. Lc,elgoe oeelpp efrhs enhw tle ouy to yuo ltopxie ievan ruddrgaen oto aer not ryt ynoje a nad nyma. Ipnoamttr t)aerugda ][ uyo lwil istem na( ryou saol rftea yuo meet psonre ciehshr thiw.
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,ywa prak ibtcino yan ni shac oyu aehv 2102 by oeferb het.

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