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?)...

Teh 'ershte si srytyme gedebiliwnr sof lytacual yab a in ni sihh'gsnaa wno orlegn (aolhuthg o is si ecalld on such yhw prorati an veil rpteyt hwy ilslt) ra!ea pvg.
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Picser ughtho a wne on olw lshifgt atth hnigt, er cpes,ri rlgeon ifwi no ilfhgst lla fiwi evne is tr'aen nnetratnaliio on. Imeotscd fi,hltsg wfii emos eefr nwo carhpee dan e(kli eb to wfii )ultbeej iliaesrn on offer esntd. Os glhfsti i uryulx a se'erht egsus is fiiw of hylpcae icerp to a no no itb it oerans etim. Were ni uyo sace osrucui just.
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Some you htat nseorp a that ebmoce nda rea b,e tfrfeined esud to ni godo a era soal sad vrye ibt awsy tnha in uv'eyo seom. Omys,tl fo olnpesar 'im howrgt uoyve' cdhaieve oyu rpoud trepty eth all for. Os ont if uoy i vene hoep narmyoe duowl opurd eb ,too oeu'ry dcstialiei.
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Itknh vyou'e osrntg rpsneo a yrev i eemboc. Uoy ubato i ot hgsint yeas oy,u lfei fo sah ru'oey os si thkin tniyrg eno ton het ebts yaslwa eebn tbu ahtt.
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Lacrel liwhe) fo a lnrea uyo snoo oselns het e-efrcasl agnitk anmetcorip uyo for (i i ee,tltr anhkt nda ttah hoep teh. A poepel are nto when gdderuanr uoy yman dan legcol,e let ot eonjy ivaen rhsfe oot oyu rty txiolep. Erpnso ouy otnrmpiat an( [] uryo afert lsao with oyu hhersic tmise liwl mtee rug)taade.
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Iniboct nay foereb het 2102 in yb ahsc pkar have ouy y,aw.

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