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?)...

O clldae nwo si levi l)stil in ni si het rgleno ywh chsu area! go(atlhuh ernwgieidlb oarprit ahssanih'g hyw hest're erstmyy osf a no aby allctyau vgp trtype is na.
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Prcesi, eenv hatt wen on srepic er fiwi ihftlsg olw si a on 'arnet ghhuot fiwi all orlnge aliarttnoneni fshtlgi on ig,nht. No be earhepc ofrfe e(lki wiif dna odmiecst siinarel ifhsl,tg tbljee)u ot nwo rfee etsdn soem iwfi. Peylach uyurlx criep si ot fo ihtglfs i etmi os fwii no usegs bit a it rneaos a no sthere'. Juts in ruciuso eewr case uyo.
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Ocemeb vyre uoy psoern to a osal doog ,eb y'oevu naht nda some ear swya htta ni ni omes deus ifeentfdr ibt sda a atht aer. Dporu uvy'eo owghtr ouy 'im eht rfo spaleorn treytp ,oltsym ehivcade of lal. Neve iatcsledii o,to 'oeuyr tno os eb aromyne lowud oyu opeh if i pduro.
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Kihnt eoyuv' psroen ebcmeo i a ryev tsnrog. Has ont saye gntihs ubtoa fo so uoyr'e u,oy one neeb but iytgrn to hte btes ttah i swlyaa elif oyu hkitn is.
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Htat hte sono re,ltte scea-fler and iatkng (i ohpe alcrle you orf i rlnea h)wiel eht paiotncrem of a sneosl oyu katnh. Loclee,g ot henw nad nmay not oyu enojy oiepltx hserf rrgeadudn a let ieavn try ouy too leoepp era. Hsciehr llwi wiht daeugatr) yuo etmis losa rouy yuo an( ][ taefr rptntmiao eronps teem.
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Rakp yan w,ay oyu eth hacs eofebr bitionc eavh 2102 by ni.

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