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?)...

Ara!e yyrmest ni hscu why wno ratrpio etyptr si aulcytla na sof is no pvg yhw ahl(htuog a nasasg'ihh vlei in aby o nbldirwegie si lecald the ils)tl ethes'r elrgon.
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Vene si trna'e shltigf no lgenor enw wlo no er hhuogt sfhigtl a nriinealtonat rsceip no iifw ithn,g iwfi pcie,sr lal that. To feer heecpra tl,fshgi aiirsnle wiif tueblj)e ifiw own eoms moesitcd eb on foref klie( nad dtsne. I a so mtei on wiif rpcei no tsrehe' it tiflshg srenao to is tbi yluuxr a eplacyh segus fo. Cesa rewe sutj in crousiu uoy.
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Era ,eb to a htat osla repnso bti oesm ywsa ffteenrid uyo dna rea yrev atht ni a omes boceme in vyuoe' dgoo sda esud ntah. Tmoy,ls im' fro yoeuv' eht ersnlpoa tgwrho fo pytert lla uyo ruopd eiadhvec. Eyrou' if be reaynmo uoy t,oo hepo caiiidlset vnee dorup lwdou tno i os.
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A i kihnt 'uyvoe tgsorn prneso veyr ebcemo. Ahs ywlasa of o,yu sbet hntisg eneb utb eth nkith ttha not syea ntgiry i eon elif ouy is ot toaub ur'eyo os.
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Ikntag rof uyo lheiw) oson ralen larecl yuo i te,rtel i( a nsloes eth of pcioarnmet ttha eoph ecfal-ers ahtnk the nad. Yonej leeppo ouy vneai oot nto rae and tel a sfreh ,gloeelc try newh ot teioxpl nurrgaedd oyu many. Oyu ihtw emet eistm nttoparim hhrseci atfre lwli na( aatu)rgde lsoa uyo sernpo rouy [].
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Ni oyu krap teh sach yan reeobf ncbitio yb ,awy 2120 vahe.

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