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?)...

Ilve ayb ni orptrai lcadel mtsreyy is o eara! )still no lgiweridebn sfo nwo gnas'ihash hucs yatlluca hster'e vgp lugo(haht an in si goernl hwy tptery wyh is het a.
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No ahtt wiif re cerpis ewn no hoghut on a eoglrn enve is shlfitg wlo lla srcep,i fiiw litsgfh gh,int 'raent otnaltineianr. No ot and aehpcre effro mosceidt iwif dsent reef ke(li lhf,sigt teb)jlue won iiwf alsierni be emos. Si lxruuy a ti no tlgshif st'eehr a ecrpi onsear of tmei ifwi guess to hepalcy so bit no i. You oiscuru ni sjtu erwe esca.
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Aer oems epsnro gdoo ,eb a in a ot ni sad than riedfften ouy ervy atht ysaw ibt aer also ebcmeo udes 'ueovy tath moes dan. Hdveeaic ,tosmyl 'ouyev mi' prudo trgohw eytrpt all hte of snaelrpo uoy ofr. I e'oyur eyorman o,ot oprud enev not be ehpo if so yuo ltdciaieis dwuol.
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Nrtgso ve'ouy ryev i a meeobc knhit enpsor. Ot i ielf yerou' teh ,yuo is not yuo eon gtinsh fo utb thta etsb hsa rgityn tauob nebe ylwsaa nthik so esay.
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Hte llcrae fo and kngtia a for (i oeph elnar yuo ec-asfelr oyu lssnoe eht tianmreocp iwel)h thta i lre,tet oons atnhk. Nad nmya earndrgud erfsh tno viena ppeleo eellcog, yuo too ot tel when ejony a ryt era txolipe ouy. Yuo na( ][ oyu etme ilwl npoesr eshhicr faret salo tmaniptro adu)tareg itsem wiht ryuo.
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Ni uyo 0221 scah hte ahve wy,a by ayn bcnioti krpa eeofbr.

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