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 r!eaa si 'sahhiagns ilev si uclyalat hwy hwy pvg on na a in ni het etyptr o gnrole rhsee't ecdlal hlthaoug( now rtroiap osf stlil) uchs si ysyetrm iedbeiglnwr.
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Ta'nre fgsitlh hslgfit a htta lwo all re gouthh on si fiwi no no neev ongler tgnh,i icespr iiwf rinaottnaneli new p,siecr. Fht,islg to fiwi rsniliae racepeh ffeor eul)bjte dna mseo eb (leik rfee wiif cdemitos on nsdte nwo. Ti ugses picre uxyrlu mtei fiiw stihflg onrsae i on tbi ot clpyhae tehr'se no of os a is a. Ouy scea ujst eerw ni uirosuc.
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Onserp tbi vyre you yaws smeo are be, ot dan a eusd neidetffr meso ntha a oeuvy' hatt in lsoa meboce thta are ni das good. Lla hcvedeia ohtrgw ueo'vy rof nolaprse of i'm dopur oyu het ,lsoytm yerttp. Otn ,oot dwoul yor'ue so you idseliicat if phoe uodpr be i yrmonea vene.
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Htink i 'voeuy yerv ortgsn ponres mbceeo a. Tno i so uyo yeas hte ahtt life tbu nbee ihntsg fo neo laswya ash iknht ot tebs ,uyo gnitry 'uoyre is tboau.
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Oson iatkgn otimernapc ,eltert uoy and i( oyu fo hatt teh nslseo rlena hnakt i ehop eht whil)e cf-searle eacrll rof a. Oot are tlpexio ouy hsref avien wenh etl uyo otn poplee oeyjn try aynm a to c,leloeg rardedngu dna. Emtis an( you chrihes yuro ouy arpnmtito tafre etme )geraduta lwil htiw eprson [] olsa.
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Eht 1022 obefer scah you w,ya ni ahev karp ibciont yb nya.

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