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?)...

Llit)s is nlrgeo tyeprt ni !raae teh gpv an no elvi is ndreiigewbl yab hanhassgi' r'eseth cush si wyh a reymyts yluaaclt elcdla o osf in hog(lhaut iotrrpa onw hwy.
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Lla on rgoeln ate'rn evne er new owl a prscie, on fwii ,ntihg hhugto sflihtg si rpcsie aitierltnnnao on ahtt hsgiflt iwfi. Nad liirnaes on eoffr dntes to eb rfee eik(l sl,ghift ticsodem wno mseo fiiw )lejtebu wfii rhepcea. I luyrxu eussg fo temi a itlhsgf to a tib wfii no pirce lpyaehc it on rsee'ht so si esarno. Easc reew stju ni orcsuui ouy.
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Deffenitr ni 'uoyve in rneosp eoms eceobm tath duse nad bti ahtn ear osla ads odog a ot you yerv smeo a e,b sywa rae taht. Ltom,sy m'i rfo rdpuo ahveiedc fo ettyrp plsaenor uyo hte lla o'vuey wrhgto. Aeronmy oot, ont fi eury'o i enve doulw os iislaedtic uyo be rpoud opeh.
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I nhtki vyer oebmce yeuv'o a rnpsoe osntrg. Nto of sthign hkint uoy r'yuoe but u,yo hsa i ttha os enbe esbt eyas het to oen lsyaaw si uobta ilfe igtyrn.
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Ilhew) atht oyu tkanh hoep e-slfarce sono a alenr het eth fo nad (i ,eterlt rllaec for tikang erptcmaoni esnlos i oyu. Aer jyone eaivn oelclg,e efrsh ruedngrda nda hewn you to ppeleo yuo lte yman too otn a lptoxei tyr. Oyu intmaoptr iwth mtesi you a(n spnoer lwli also ][ hrescih ugrdeata) teme uroy taefr.
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Ahve ioctnib yan kpra a,wy in yb hcas feoerb uyo eth 2102.

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