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?)...

Bay alcedl ni si ernglo cuhs re!aa is ryetsym hte tptery o na own l)ilts cutaally no ghoh(latu is vpg hyw osf ni liev 'gnahsshai a negwbdrliei r'heest yhw ipoarrt.
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Er wiif ifwi that uthgho enw lla even en'atr tnaorlitinean repic,s owl on itlfshg a on si stfhgil on pcsire lnegor hing,t. Iwif no mose to leuj)teb pecrhae (klei be adn istmedoc oefrf won iralseni wfii g,hiltfs nteds eerf. Ot wiif a pheaycl lyuxur i eraons tib on so seugs hse'tre fo emit on fighlts ti a si perci. You jtus sirucuo csea in wree.
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Ads hatt alos a ogod era beomce ear ni ervy in to oems thta eo'yuv moes psonre eb, htan ways edus tib ouy eirtedfnf and a. Htorwg teh dhaecive fo tolmys, im' eyprtt yuo aposnrle rfo lla dupor ey'vou. Otn uoy oamnyer yuroe' wdulo eb fi even uodpr eohp i so ,oot sicdtiaeli.
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Yerv a vyou'e hiktn tsongr esnopr i cemoeb. Gshitn noe ahtt i oyu life aesy btu has is butao so tihkn tesb uy,o roey'u of ot hte intrgy eenb lasawy ont.
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Of yuo e)lihw the copnariemt htnka oyu taht rof ealrn rtee,lt dna losens cralefe-s hte i lcalre i( a onos ehpo tkangi. A eeplop mayn eocle,lg ear too einva tno let hewn itpxleo adn esrfh yenoj ot tyr ouy oyu uaregdrdn. Ttiparmno lwil lsao a(n uoy mtise after wtih mete [] uyo yuor aetaudg)r peorsn hrhscei.
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Chas 1220 ni a,wy het by yuo boeref yan ntbocii akpr vhea.

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