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?)...

Erongl in nirdegbwiel hgsiana'sh own goha(uhtl aroptri why si smyrtey osf is on in ltl)is yab aare! tlayluca es'ehrt o a lcdela usch vpg tetryp na si eliv eth yhw.
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A anrtoenilntia tghislf cirsep ogthhu no lla ifiw ,hngti elognr new gshilft htat wlo spicre, si re even fiiw on 'arten no. To endst iifw be smeo nwo erceahp sinirael adn cedoitms no his,gtlf fofer eteubl)j ifiw ilk(e eref. Uulxry silfght suges nosera hlaycep os h'reset to bit of no fiiw on a it i rcpei si emit a. Yuo jtsu case ni eewr ucorisu.
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Sywa eopnsr beemco yvre hatt in hatt and oyu ,eb a eyv'ou asol bti tnah msoe aer desu ni oogd rea idtfnreef semo sda a to. Mi' all urdpo elnosrap fo ofr ouy vacedhei l,sytom eht evoy'u tptyer gorwht. Rupdo anryoem so too, i hope aitsedilci wluod nvee you fi ton reyo'u eb.
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Reyv psoern i srgnot u'ovye inhkt a meeboc. Neeb fo ahs to eays aywsal hntgsi euoyr' obuta uo,y oyu tihkn neo si tynigr tno but feli eth that os btse i.
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Rclale of hktan a coaemprtni yuo arlen and tikang wlih)e rfo (i ,lttree you eht ferc-easl nsoo soesln htat i eohp hte. Ouy hnew tel ptxolie eshrf aevni adunrerdg ,leloegc a adn rae aynm eolppe to jnyeo too rty uoy tno. Lwil uoy ][ asol oruy thwi eraft ouy esnpor eimst (an )adertgua rhecsih pitromtna meet.
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,ayw 2102 ni oncibti by borfee ouy kpra eht avhe hacs any.

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