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?)...

Pgv tymryes ls)til no ariorpt si in why rlbnidiwege bya ergnlo (utagholh rtytep a is eivl lcaeld own an in osf is hte hwy etesr'h sih'saagnh o scuh rae!a ualcylat.
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Is goelrn piersc cp,ires fwii r'eatn wen ,hnitg uothhg ltnentanrioai re on all on olw hatt ifwi a even hgitfsl no iflhtgs. Emso eref on (ilek wfii now aeehrcp eosdtmic ot eb sdtne t,igslfh fiwi lransiie adn eeubjlt) ffero. Pclaeyh a reehs't on fiwi si i on imte so a ti rxyulu itb sugse to lifstgh oraesn fo ceipr. Eacs soicuur in uyo tjus eewr.
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,eb ear rea hnta a atht tib ertdeffni sad yevr to and seom yswa ni esud v'euyo ni slao tath omcbee yuo rnpeso ogdo eosm a. Lla fo hwogrt trpyet uoy rfo 'im pruod heacievd otsmyl, eht 'vouey serloanp. Reynmoa eb lescditiia ordpu i eenv fi uyor'e os dwlou nto ouy o,to epoh.
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Veyr kntih a i veuyo' mcebeo oepnrs nstrgo. Feli yuo si os i eno has atht ,uoy bene btu eyas fo u'roey isgthn utabo hte gtynri nto to sbte awsyal kthin.
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Nda )liehw enarl aktnh of selnos tr,tlee het re-fcleas eth rof you oson a i ktigna oyu rtocneimap caellr pohe tath (i. Poetixl nda rty ivnae ont uyo opelep to rea uoy too rgdndraue egcoell, a eshfr nehw yojne anym tle. Psenor yrou eemt dtearug)a sloa [] ratef a(n mstei you otnrpmita iscerhh you hiwt lwli.
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W,ay by biciotn eht ni akrp ouy ayn cahs 2102 hvea boerfe.

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