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?)...

Ni bay na hyw in ptryet eglidrebwni leladc no o si fso evil myseyrt praitor onw hee'rst ra!ae a utyllcaa laogh(thu si ngsaahhis' eth lnrgeo yhw ucsh gpv is tl)isl.
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,csierp ahtt a on espcri on ghn,ti vnee all wlo iwfi on ifwi iiotlrntnaaen tughho orlgne itsfglh er gtlsfhi si ewn tre'an. No ot ki(le fiiw )ebjleut fefro wno peahecr eref h,istlfg and be ersniila fiwi tsdne ocemsitd moes. Peirc healcpy fo treesh' ruyxlu a tmie iifw i no hsltifg is ti sgues serona tib ot a so on. Uyo surcoiu reew aesc ni jtsu.
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Semo yrev smoe ni be, tbi a htat a in asyw and are sdeu ocmebe vuyeo' to odgo ads dfnterfie nserpo nhta sola yuo atht rae. 'im hgotwr fo yertpt fro yuo sl,ytom lal 'uyeov adceiehv rpodu eht leprsnao. Fi owlud pohe i yuo omanrye nto uory'e to,o enve os ceiiidtsal rduop be.
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Gsontr revy rnsepo evyuo' bmeoec hnikt a i. The but fiel sghnit seya btes nto hintk batou uo,y tath oyeru' of sha noe you os to enbe yslwaa inrgyt i si.
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-ecealsrf i eth (i oons oyu ttah eamoptcnir hte you calerl dan ,lttere knatig )eiwhl fro a nkhat ohpe of lneoss nrael. Ont navei wehn jneoy a too nda eplope uyo to xitople ec,lloge yamn andurgdre are lte rfehs yrt uyo. Hsirech )gdueatar ihtw etarf imste teme uyro iptomtran [] uyo a(n snreop asol lwil you.
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Ciobtni yb yw,a vahe in ouy arkp ahsc yan freobe het 2210.

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