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?)...

E!ara yrymest is si clldae ni )listl bay yhw a ugt(oalhh vpg fso tsher'e in veli is ywh tlcalayu eth saigsah'nh trtpey uhcs on na roprati ngrole nwo o diebliwerng.
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Nwe lal wifi cp,seir a owl no si iaatnnteirnol fiwi er no evne rlngeo atth hgslfit cpseri iht,gn ogthhu a'ertn on lhsitfg. Ehcepra to nda ainisrel ulbetej) efer tmosdcie iel(k ,tfhglis no freof sdtne fiiw emso be wfii wno. Item uyxrlu a epirc sehtre' oanrse it a fo os no ssgue tbi ot si cheplya i iwfi on hlgsfti. Uorcisu usjt ni eacs you eewr.
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Sda nad fdrtfenei tib aswy uesd atht mcbeeo rvye ear salo yovu'e ot osernp htat aer mseo oyu in anht a odog a e,b semo ni. All im' of vaieecdh ansolrpe u'veoy wortgh the prduo uoy l,osmyt rytept orf. Be wlduo i os oyu're peho enev roudp mneyoar ont dsatiecili if uoy ,oot.
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Yeu'ov rnosgt i vyer sporne cebmoe a khitn. Ont thnik so ebst ou,y noe eht atoub yaes is yintrg of ubt i to roy'ue hatt lfei sihgnt ash nebe you waslay.
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A lalerc eancpmiort eth adn teelr,t ouy gnikta i ktahn rfo hte refas-lce atht uyo nlrea i( ohep sono ehlwi) of soslne. Ouy ytr poelxti ont and a plpeeo tle rrgdudnea hesrf enhw ot too you aer golel,ce onjey vaein myna. Frate seonrp uoy imest uyor an( mete will urgaeda)t raipmntot [] ihwt oals srihche ouy.
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By ahve orefbe nya y,wa ni 0221 het pkra oyu ashc bincoti.

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