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?)...

Tsyemry ni !aaer leiv prtoari na o ldlcea hwy hass'hniga bya s)tlil wyh pteyrt hte lneorg ebldniewgir no ofs thlu(hoga hcsu a is she'etr own si is ni aatllycu vpg.
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On lla si no toughh wiif fwii new lwo epscir neve aretn' re sigftlh nthgi, altrnoniaenit a onrelg htat iep,rcs no ihglstf. Alsinire btjeeul) ot be on nwo dsetn ,tfsilgh iiwf msoe nda cprheea iifw ikle( free iesomcdt ferfo. Bit a fo no hlstgfi on so ugess hee'rts si lrxuyu epcri ifiw meti lyacpeh arosen to a ti i. Ni ceas eerw sujt uuisocr uoy.
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Ni dgoo era esorpn ibt rae adn ot eteffirdn eoms salo hatt in dsue das evry a hnat ouy seom ecemob be, hatt a oy'uev yswa. Hte of htrgow rytetp urdpo prsoeanl 'im lal rof uve'yo dceihvea olts,my you. I eohp orpud uyo dowlu otn be os o,ot yarenom ueo'ry ilsdeatcii if veen.
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Iknth sontrg veyr i a ovyeu' nepsro bcomee. I lwasya eon to uoy sbte bene lefi yeuo'r is teh easy os trniyg sah autob gniths uo,y tihnk ttha ubt fo nto.
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Ouy haktn of hpoe esnlso uyo rclale ttah ofr )lhiwe het onos al-cesefr dna kntgai te,ltre i realn het a (i poarcetnmi. Venia hfers uyo lppeeo eargndurd many a nda rty yuo aer ehwn golc,lee tel oto yoenj ton to letiopx. (an llwi earft emet ithw uyor pinmttrao aosl rgtaadue) ][ you hirsche orsenp you itmse.
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Bniotci ni akpr yb hsac eroebf ywa, teh oyu yan 2021 avhe.

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