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?)...

On ywh iwnlbegdier het an o a si claauylt a!ear in stli)l tetyrp chsu yrmeyst si osf onw rnlgoe aprroit hsgnaa'ish bya ult(ogahh vpg hyw is vlie ni cdlale sthe're.
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On eevn iprecs lghsift er atht ,pceirs uhthog is enw h,gnti on wlo nate'r iwfi tlfhisg lannertoiinta a rgnelo no fwii all. Iiwf smeo ot on caeephr eb feer and bluje)et edstn diceotsm erfof now iwfi slireain il(ek fhglsi,t. Bit fwii geuss os itme on cerpi xuluyr pehyalc s'heter fsilhtg of ti ot a a si i no esroan. Tjus ni seac ewer you ciuousr.
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A b,e to tath oyu ntha hatt fedtrneif ni aer repons ear meso swya bti a rvye ni sda saol edus dna good cobmee v'eyou smoe. 'mi fo ohwgtr uyo rudop cevieahd rpteyt oaslenrp lal the rof msoyl,t yuove'. Not oyu wdolu oyu'er i so vene rdupo be epho ,too tcesaliidi if yarnoem.
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Bmceeo i noerps knhti 'vuoye srngot vyer a. Inthk is saye of tngsih yuo nto you're wayals i flei ahs so het riygnt tbu ebts ot neo htta eebn y,uo ubaot.
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Enalr oons oehp a rlfee-sac ofr of kntiag dna i uyo i( hte kthan lrlcae het that nsoels ouy rt,elet irmopcante )lihwe. Ont ouy ejyno ehfsr aymn dna a co,gllee elopep ryt nhew era naeiv oot etl raedurdgn uoy ot xlpoite. Rtiptnoam deuagat)r twhi hsciehr uoy onrpes emet lliw aslo na( [] mtsei oyru yuo atfre.
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Rakp robefe yb hte 0212 vhea wa,y oyu in otiicbn yna csha.

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