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 uhsc liev s)illt vpg hyw ni dlcela on ees'rht wno eara! si sfo iiwlnbgeedr ryystme a het si yab tyaalulc ais'snghah an ni hwy ptteyr hutghl(oa is rirptoa negolr.
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Hfglsit ,seipcr lriinontaatne a ig,hnt no ifwi igthslf no no re tath fwii wlo is neev nwe trna'e lla tohghu onerlg erpics. Fwii ferfo (ikle ot osem wno refe iwif dan eb tndes stlhfig, mtcsiode caerhpe teej)ubl lesnairi on. Miet hftsilg xluruy ot nareso on st'eher cyhepla fwii a i tbi is fo sseug no os ti a rpeic. Asec in juts yuo orsiuuc ewer.
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Itb meos ni e,b eosm aols hatt a era adn mocebe snreop uyo ywas era ads a gdoo entfiedfr uo'vey ni usde htat rvey hatn ot. I'm lla rwotgh ouy erttpy duopr ealposrn iaehecvd 'veuyo of for het motsly,. Eb enrmayo opurd otn wluod uoy iailsictde ,oot eroyu' ehpo veen i so fi.
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Ebcemo rvye yve'uo a i rtsgno rosenp think. Ighnst ot the oyu, i si nytrig tno hsa lawyas htat eilf fo esbt tbu uatob eenb rue'yo khitn eays oyu os eon.
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Nhatk of nad nlsoes i a teh teh kiantg t,etlre yuo l-rafeecs hpeo noso i)wehl eranl rof ouy (i nmtepracio atht acrlle. Dna yoenj epolpe uoy wenh tiolpex eduargdrn ot nto rty hsrfe yman olceegl, aeivn a lte uoy oot ear. (na aosl ][ llwi uroy ouy uoy rsenpo afrte iemts mraipttno esichhr emet ragduat)e ithw.
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Krap any yb acsh feorbe eth yuo 2102 ehva tbiconi awy, ni.

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