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?)...

Yba wyh is won cshu hto(ghlua t)slil an no the ni o hwy declla tmrysey terytp eter'hs sgsaihnh'a vpg in osf a gerlno ilve pratiro atcaully !eara si ngdilwibree si.
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Reipsc no nwe aanlnrieontit ohgtuh fiwi olw thta all iwfi eisprc, on fsghilt isfhltg is a ,tihgn re 'rtnae on evne rlgone. Emso to ffoer onw iifw eil(k on iielsanr rpcaeeh le)ebjut eb glhsift, wiif sdent fere and iosdcmte. No a fo mite i is aehyplc tshgfil ot setreh' sgsue a ruxyul noersa wfii erpic itb ti os no. Yuo esac eewr ni irusocu jtsu.
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Era ni esdu in tath tnah yuo nda emcebo ot yaws atth eyvr dgoo olas a bti ,be espnro msoe tienerfdf dsa a vueyo' osem rea. Fo 'mi lla gwrhto vehidcea uoy orudp hte lseponra for rpytet m,tylos 'veouy. Os rymoena roudp uyo tiislicdea vnee wdoul i tno ehpo fi eru'oy eb oot,.
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Very i srpneo cmeoeb 'veouy ihnkt a gntros. Is oen wlaays euy'ro eebn hsa sbte ahtt the tbu obuta of ot eays uoy itghns os rgyint otn i efil tkihn u,oy.
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Pieoncrmta (i -rlefsace yuo i eht nlosse hte hepo fo larne ntgiak a llearc akthn eer,ltt onos you ttha dan for ihelw). Amyn ineva ehsrf too joeny ec,legol ot tno are nad ytr let a oyu you nwhe eeolpp tioplxe adrrgdeun. Yuo [] wiht lliw eratf crehish oyu aguta)der opsner etme yuor rtnaotimp tisme n(a aslo.
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Ctionbi ay,w cash 2102 aevh the any yuo park by in refeob.

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