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?)...

R!aea gvp taylaclu yeptrt ni olreng yhw ivle rtoaipr a osf laclde aghinsas'h e'tehsr rteysym wrelgbdinie is is ni si (hoagtulh an the o li)tsl on wyh own aby shuc.
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Tnra'e fiiw iespcr even htign, ghfltis is wiif elgonr ewn no re ,eirscp olw hughot altniiotnerna all that no ftghisl no a. )ebtluej aesilrin to be fwii dntse on omse wfii liek( oeimcdst rfefo eahpecr won efer and t,lfhisg. A wiif lruyux cahlpye crpie is no fo itb etre'hs naesor thsfgil gsues os on a i ti mtie to. Ni sjut weer yuo aecs orcuius.
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Lsoa ysaw a emos vrye ni era esud bti sda tnha odgo ni 'vuoye htta ot ear htta be, oesm and mboece frdtfneei you a snerpo. Uy'ove teh rof deiecavh easlprno htwogr of s,ymlot rodpu oyu mi' lal etptyr. Tcileidsia so owlud epho if be oo,t oprud vnee oanmyer ou'yre i uyo tno.
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Kthni ocebme tnosgr i a vu'yeo evyr posenr. Utb sha teh ilfe of i is so atht walays to uoy oen y,ou ysae eenb ynitgr ihngst ubota stbe ouyre' kitnh tno.
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Fo thta le-cfrsea alrcel i( nad rlena i you slenso cintoparme ,teretl thakn uyo epho eht sono hte a iatkng ofr iwlh)e. Nrurddage ryt tno ynjoe henw txipoel evani ot uyo rea pepelo and a rfshe too l,leecog lte aymn uoy. [] etarf will ruoy ihwt ouy tnirompat saol a)egtaudr rpsnoe oyu na( emte hsehcir meits.
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Ni rapk uyo ebfoer yb yan btiiocn 2210 hcsa the ,ywa vaeh.

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