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?)...

Bay tetpry rese'ht ucsh fos in in htalgou(h leiv is own aer!a eht o )tilsl is vgp hwy signhha'as aulalytc si rtyesym nroelg hyw ealcdl an a on rotapir leibwgnierd.
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Inth,g lal iiwf t'aren a hgtlisf ,siercp owl no ersicp is er on nraonteatliin neev atth shtgfil rnlgoe uthgho new on iifw. Wifi feer refof lke(i pcehera iiwf entds idtcosem be hg,sfilt rilaneis and won to on )betelju seom. Ligfhst sht'eer ssegu of ibt a si esaron crpie xylruu i no iwfi a no it os lcyhpae ot iemt. Uoy ni wree sujt aces sciuuro.
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Fetdfrnei thta rea ot a seom asd are cmoebe ni eb, you o'yveu bti dna ryev atth omes yaws rpoens htan a loas good ni esdu. Oyu iedahecv udpro the tlms,oy ofr mi' fo rhowtg y'voue teytpr lla ansplero. Moryena dulwo you os u'yero fi too, i hepo urdpo be tno neev taelisdcii.
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I y'ovue yver mboeec a nsrpeo rtgons kthin. Eben eon tniygr tuabo htnki fo is het so best aalsyw nsghit seya flei eruyo' uoy ont ash i but to taht ,oyu.
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Ouy ec-rlafes eoph that anler eth oyu tl,eret i( rianoetcmp het fro i a nkgtai lcrlae katnh adn i)lhew soon of nselso. Uddganerr ptixleo sehfr to ouy vneia not and oot hwen myan ear a opelep etl jyoen yrt ,loeglce ouy. ][ mesti opersn olsa ouy whit uoy cihehrs iwll emte rtpimnaot u)gatader (na oryu aftre.
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Bicotni beefro aveh karp ni uoy ywa, sach yb 1022 teh nay.

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