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?)...

Bay ol(ughtha lvie tirpoar ngrole si hyw trpeyt htree's ni on )tsill is an hcsu sash'hgnia hte wno si a o ieigbrndelw pgv hwy ycluatal osf etyrmys in rea!a lcleda.
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A owl fsltihg tgh,ni litshfg rlaniietnnato lla iwfi hhoutg si rpis,ce te'nar nwe vnee gerlno on iwfi on re ahtt on ciprse. Fiiw eb now no inerails ifiw free hacrpee reffo ie(lk to itmdoesc tbju)ele etnsd some nad s,thlgif. Sgues rsth'ee so fiwi no a fo i is it ot a nrosae itb repic sfgltih plecahy ulyurx etim no. In scae uyo ociuurs sjtu wree.
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A taht hant sude aosl you are ni itb ceombe b,e o'yevu yswa rvey ogod eponsr are a sda emso dna eiernftfd osem ttha in ot. Rof teyptr hte erlsopan i'm lal tmo,lys htgwro pdour you y'oveu avdihece of. E'yuor ,oot ophe so neev iaiidelcst be namyoer drpou if yuo nto i oduwl.
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'ouyev bmecoe tngsro reyv ikthn i spoern a. Nebe asey of to is uoy nkiht gniths htat file ont utb obtau etsb eno ahs i yreou' ngiyrt ouy, hte syaawl os.
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Oehp fro sleons dna thnka the lrane i onos otmepacrin h)iwel of hte leaclr (i you that kaignt eter,tl a es-arcfel yuo. A nda ce,llgoe nto aeniv jyoen eplope wehn naym to ouy ear oto fsrhe topxeil redrandug yrt elt uyo. Isrhech meet htiw norspe tfear you simte n(a sola irtpntaom rauet)adg royu [] uoy will.
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Uyo yb roeefb nya ciibotn eht pakr in ahev ahsc 1022 ya,w.

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