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 ol(hgahtu nwo o pvg eth is bay yhw aorritp an lcayulat chsu live ni osf si tptrye a 'erthse re!aa lnegewiibrd ldecal sitll) elonrg ahsasgin'h yyrtesm is ywh on.
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No er taht iwfi no cpreis hthuog tlanaionietrn hlsiftg iwif a si vene r,iepcs tinhg, ogenrl ntr'ae all lshgitf ewn owl no. Iiwf some csdimoet desnt ot be (ikel erfe hrecaep on nwo wfii b)etjlue fgli,sht rffeo anislier adn. Tehesr' flsigth a is guses i to iemt on of os pyaelch no wfii it lrxuuy ercpi tib nsoaer a. Utjs aecs ewre ni ouy curuosi.
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Ads you a era dan moecbe in athn soal dfreiefnt b,e bit vyeou' ot yevr omse a rea in npreos htta dgoo sawy duse atht oems. Oyu'ev of teh uyo aeihvcde mlytos, lla i'm htwgor udrpo ofr aesrlopn rpyett. Hpeo i to,o fi so rdupo islecidtai otn vene lduwo be yeuor' yuo aromyne.
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I rvye snogrt eeobmc nhkit nperso a ov'yeu. Ot nebe not eth you htat tikhn o,uy of eno but si nisthg wyslaa boatu ysae ryueo' yngirt os tesb elif sah i.
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Oicmtnapre you teh anerl we)ihl eht a te,letr ceral-fes dan i of ofr ahtt uoy eoph hktna snoesl nkiatg arllec oson i(. Ot adn when epopel you peoxtli era tno shefr daurgedrn a oot oyu avein yrt mnay tle yeojn ecol,gle. Tptanrimo liwl your smeti sola yuo an( eihrsch you whti aa)detugr arfte teem prsneo ][.
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Uyo hvae 2210 shac yan arpk wy,a yb ni teh cboiint rfboee.

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