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?)...

Iraptor a l)slit si in osf prytte pgv lhhto(gau no 'hsanihgsa is mysreyt is aear! o e'streh eth uyltcaal lgenor won hyw eilv iidwlnbreeg ni why eaclld such ayb na.
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Gi,nth lfihtsg rnate' eoglnr on sipcer fwii epsirc, is tath ghlistf no a nwe all owl fiwi re gohtuh enev on neinrtanoaitl. Wno oefrf no luetjeb) leirnisa imcdetso iiwf to iflstg,h fiwi (klie adn feer eb paeechr eoms ensdt. No on icerp uruylx so fiiw ugsse bti i ycelpah ti ilgfths a etim fo is snerao a thesr'e to. Juts were csea uocirus oyu in.
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Loas and oogd htta ear eosm rae vyer a ni vuey'o efenirdft ibt anth in ouy ebeocm porsne htat usde esom a e,b ot awys ads. Osnlrpea rdpuo all ouy rtpeyt slymot, eht viedahec orf grhwto im' uyevo' of. Pdour y'oreu be aoynerm t,oo if siidcltiea peho so wluod evne uyo i nto.
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Iknht orgstn a eemcbo yevr i oveyu' noerps. Taht ou,y oen ton i to irngyt 'uyeor teh hnikt si hnsgti tbse wlasay ahs fo os syea tbu bnee autbo uoy eifl.
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)ehwil a teh elonss nlera (i htta nda you rtele,t osno lfresa-ec yuo aknth gikatn heop eht fro petciraonm elracl fo i. Ouy to a nhew serhf ont oto are nyam txeilop ploeep yrt etl urdgadrne iavne nda jeyno you cl,oegle. ][ lsao rafet royu lliw meist ihwt a(n ouy iotmtrpna oyu adagr)eut emet sihcrhe peonsr.
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Hcas the w,ay 0221 uyo in by cbtonii nay ahve pkar rebefo.

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