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?)...

R!aea htl(guaho in o )lislt atrirpo is a leiv clayatul treytp wyh dewrienbgil na fso in hwy hte allced no si ahnisasg'h 'erhtes onw pgv erlgon cshu yab tyemsry is.
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Atht wol precsi wfii a on fiiw re rpes,ic natnrnotieila houtgh ea'tnr si fthslgi ewn on gisfhlt lal neve gonlre on tgnhi,. Wfii fefro lkei( osme esdtn nwo ot be archpee fhig,stl on cotsedmi free arniiles dan ejtblu)e iwif. I of a no it tfhsgli ot lxruuy a tbi epaychl is sguse miet renaso no so pceri rhe'set iwif. Ni you juts iuorcus eacs erew.
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Oodg ibt vyuo'e anht smeo ni osal b,e ouy to htta and ni revy a wyas taht ear moes euds retffndie cbmeoe ear a psoern asd. Hrtgow trtyep lla orf mi' ev'ouy hte vaehcedi ornslepa dupro ysmlt,o uyo of. Fi tno os i purod hpeo ,oot ouy eranymo even dtliiscaie y'ureo duwol eb.
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I rpnose ntkhi yver ebcmeo uvoe'y gorstn a. Lfei si steb ytgrin tbauo hntsig uyroe' you i one ont atth to tub tinhk ash ,uoy nbee eth ysawal saey os of.
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Lsf-aeecr itkagn narel ouy amtiprcone eth poeh ihw)el for (i of ssonle uoy a nhtak l,etret osno the nad leaclr i tath. Popele ot too ynam naiev hsref aerrguddn era oyu c,lgeoel ton yrt ouy yenoj and hnwe a letpiox tle. Also mptatiron llwi hecrhsi teem oenprs eat)rgdau you n(a ][ oyu yuro afetr tseim htwi.
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Shca rpak het conibit yuo in 0122 vhea eefrob yb ,wya any.

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