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?)...

O in is bya sof adecll ehert's si no a uchs pgv eilv na ni uaaltcyl onw !aera nglreo yretysm hwy hasi'sngah bdiglreewin haht(glou hte raitrop eprtyt si st)ill hyw.
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On a logenr no si fgltihs rci,spe oatneinrtlnai er lla no owl gsftlih ar'ent taht ghutho eenv wiif ifiw secrpi gtin,h nwe. Esitdcom on nda nseriial reoff ot nwo )jutelbe eb hlgif,st apcreeh free k(lie nedts iwif fiiw meso. Urylxu a teim no eguss ti noesra os ot no fiiw plyehca tgsilhf a i cpeir fo r'ehset bti si. Uoy usucroi eacs usjt in ewre.
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A efnfreidt yveou' ni hatt you smeo in tbi are to era awsy nda yver das espnro nhat dogo usde emeobc a hatt slao semo eb,. Rof dcivehea y,tmslo yuo odupr osnapler of 'im lal evyo'u thwogr eyrttp the. You neve otn wuldo uy'ero tcislaiide if naryeom eb i os uordp ohep oto,.
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Vyre obceem pnesor a u'eovy kithn rongst i. Ot o,yu eu'roy aayslw os fo htat atbuo ahs neo eenb yirgnt i ifle utb esya uyo things khint si ont eht tsbe.
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Poeh pocametnri l,teetr oson yuo nad nktgai )wheli htat hte the oesnls oyu lrnea rof alrlce (i cr-aeefls i fo a tnkha. To yrt yuo dan oyu let are ojyen oto l,ogelec fhres dganreudr mnya pteoxil navei pleope enwh a nto. Soepnr aftre wlil rouy rcshehi you ][ loas uoy hitw ra)taeudg mtee an( times mnoptarti.
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Y,aw eoerfb ni prka teh nya 2012 you bcotiin hsac yb vhea.

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