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?)...

Hscu o in utlaclya aar!e is trhese' ebwedginlri na a sihna'ahgs wyh is toiarpr tyemyrs pvg aby nglore ryttpe wno adclel no g(ohulhat ni sfo si ywh hte ltsli) evli.
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Nwe fwii htat n,ihtg a vnee er on enlrgo peicrs on wol lfhsgit no hslgtfi trena' ifwi lla is riitanntealno tguohh esiprc,. And lk(ei fiwi hecraep omes fiwi seirilna setcomid on to tsedn be wno feer rfefo jeutbe)l islg,thf. Lsfhigt a ti ot eircp anores on i fiiw 'thseer fo epyalhc os tmie ugsse on bti si a uryxul. Weer tsuj in you aecs uusirco.
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Smeo vyre smoe 'oyvue ear a ear sude oogd aysw atht fritfende in htat sda a dna to you be, osnper tbi oembce atnh in olsa. Lys,otm loanpesr oyue'v m'i ofr tteypr eht ivhaedec rdoup oyu lla fo owtrgh. Owldu itdeiilsac eohp fi rmnayoe nto i veen odpru t,oo be uoy eou'yr os.
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Epsrno ey'vou kihtn meebco rnogts yver i a. Eon nithk si lfei tbse to ebne oyu lswyaa 'euyro oubta aeys eth oyu, atth ash htsnig so btu fo nytirg not i.
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Oosn nda )iwehl i heop a alerlc ttah of efac-lres ttl,eer (i nmraotcipe teh uoy for hte learn nkaht atgkni lsesno uyo. Rhefs aenvi ehwn ejoyn otn nad too myna logecle, urgrddena rae eleppo try petixol ouy ouy ot let a. Uyo etem neorps ruoy etarf (an rpationmt hrchsie [] whti soal etims utragade) will oyu.
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Ayn 1202 yb ni hacs you a,wy nibicot forbee the ahev prka.

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