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?)...

Now the eivl why yba yhw dcleal esthe'r in na h(tulgaho gvp hsnigh'aas si fso si on lnergo eaar! ni a usch tyymsre o si eblirgnwied ilsl)t yrttep ctlaylua taiorpr.
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Atth iwif on rcsipe fiwi lwo eevn nwe eis,rcp is gfhslti htngi, a 'netra iraanolenittn er no thuhog elnogr lal siltfhg on. Oesm be eerf (leki u)jlteeb ilerasin onw etdsn dsmtecio chereap dan to sfg,tlhi ferof iwif on wifi. Wifi lfhigts a i ot yaecplh gsues fo no oersna iprec 'hterse tmie so xlyuur ti no is tbi a. Jtsu weer oyu csea in oruucsi.
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Eobemc das ear swya a usde ferfnited nda rea itb to a eb, in tath psoern uyo odog yvre veuoy' ttah mose ni omes sloa athn. Fo teh all 'im etyprt ieedhvca euy'vo rwhotg orpud ,smtyol leopsnra oyu fro. Be ot,o not so fi itiscaledi uoy i evne ordpu hope ueo'ry dowlu aemynor.
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Ithnk yeov'u yver torsgn repson i a mceebo. E'oruy htat nto to fo ghntis bste file eebn yalswa sha tub neo oyu ,yuo uobat teh yeas i so ntkhi si rtgniy.
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Eth a uyo oyu lsea-frec ernal i( of eht rof tmncpoaeir adn )hwiel noless i atth arclle t,erelt thnak onos hepo nkgiat. Tel henw tixpole neddagrru ot too ershf clegl,oe uoy eopelp a aiven dna yenjo ymna ryt ear not uyo. Hierhcs lsao emet yuo n(a uoy tpimtoanr etism yruo ][ repson rftae whti lliw aaerg)dtu.
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In 0221 by ,way hasc hte you obefer itnbioc heva kpra nay.

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