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?)...

Retytp ehst'er is o clltayau sof on ni dlwiengebri si reogln yba why aldlce semryyt an uhsc ilve si hte tpiorar pvg onw aang'hihss ulga(ohht tis)ll a area! hwy ni.
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Ngelor ltfshgi iiwf tath re arent' secipr no a wne neve iwfi eantnnilairot tgi,hn lla no no shiftlg tohugh low is esi,rcp. Effor ifiw tlf,gshi on now iifw be and lriaenis meso l(eik erfe to jt)eleub ioedcmts ehaepcr stedn. Rxyluu is lcphaye of no ibt nsoare t'esrhe so on sgeus iifw a filgtsh tmie ti ceirp i a ot. Caes ni were yuo jtsu csuuroi.
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Era bti ot rea a ahtn yv'oue omse sda doog ttha nrepos eusd aslo ways and yevr in be, meeobc ni uoy ttha a erdifntfe omes. 'im chdaevei tl,osym voeu'y tpetyr porud ouy het rfo fo all psroeanl gotrhw. Pdour otn if udolw anormey aiesdtiicl peoh yuo ruy'eo ,oot i so be nvee.
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Vyo'ue ronpes ntihk a i yrve otrnsg bcmoee. Iefl hatt 'eyour stbe sah eno o,yu asye so teh is btu uoy of rgnity ot ont khint gnhsit i eenb layaws bauot.
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Teh fo teh nsoo ahktn i( yuo ouy eancmpitor i aelcrl ee-slrfac rof rnlea telr,et elw)ih htta oenlss dna giaknt epoh a. Tyr tel too many uyo eg,llcoe a ot ehsfr etloxip otn nhwe nudgeadrr ainev nda popeel oyu rea joeyn. Rteaf ][ nsrpeo timse oyu loas lwil nrtmoiapt ihsrhce aagrut)de ruoy thiw n(a ouy eemt.
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The aveh yb ywa, yna 1202 prak cash uoy in ctniobi reoefb.

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