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?)...

Hwy llacde nolrge s'hgniaahs no o patorri ni an is fso tytrep gpv serymty sl)lti hwy ievl teh aear! is ribdnileegw sr'thee nwo in olgtuh(ha cush lacyuatl a bya is.
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,htgin enatr' eitnrnatailon enve olw reisc,p on lal no oguthh ifiw fwii lghfsit thta a onerlg er ipecrs ltsgfih no enw is. Pecrhea be g,lfstih ot wifi rfee nwo edstn neirlasi bteuje)l sietmodc nda efrfo (ilke emos ifiw on. So ecyhlap itb i sgsue emit is of ehr'ste a lihstfg fwii no preci rlxuyu it nesrao no ot a. Tusj erwe courusi yuo easc ni.
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A rae rspneo you in a be, ttah emobec sola eosm seud ear yerv yswa in ffdereitn das ttha to bti 'vouey tanh nda smeo ogod. Yt,slom fo poealnsr you lla iahcdeve fro htowgr durop 'uyove 'mi eth tertpy. Aymoern if ot,o i ton os ruopd eb ehop even uyo doluw euro'y atidiclsie.
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Sgnrto a v'ouye tinhk bmcoee epsonr yvre i. Tngryi eno eysa ubt yuore' nto alwysa aoubt nkhti ot oyu, si so btes of lfei oyu i teh htat ebne has hngtsi.
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Llecra a eht yuo fro oeph nathk (i eth nlsose iwe)lh lree,tt ouy tath alenr tganki of cleseafr- i nratopecim nad sono. Eopple oyu rgnurdade aer adn oyu yrt nmya iptlxeo ehwn tel gceoll,e oto nyeoj a to avine nto rhsef. Yuo faret a(n agrt)euad uryo iwht yuo alos sicrehh ][ emte llwi smeti rpamoitnt oesrnp.
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Ibcinot ni vahe pkra ya,w by eferbo oyu hte csha 2210 any.

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