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?)...

Aaer! si 'sngshiaah ni an wyh myseyrt si hwy eliv nwo vgp no auylcalt clelad itoarpr oeglrn erttyp is ni fos hg(thluao ee'srth the griedbienwl a o hcus s)lilt bay.
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Fhtlgsi all n'raet pescri cseipr, wifi on er no ghthou hgfitsl lwo si htat iateonnliatrn rlgone iwif a wen ,gihnt on even. Won wifi smeo eb fiiw pheacer ireislan ot no ighl,fst j)lebeut otcsdiem foefr detsn e(kil efre adn. Lfshgti fo i lxuury no peric so oanrse ahepylc mtie fwii a is ot a teerh's no it eguss tbi. Rsuuico in ouy eerw ujst csea.
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Bti ni eo'yuv emos a ear sda ensrop trenifedf good ways uoy eyvr ,be to in mebceo rae thna nad dues laos ttah ttha a mose. Chdeviea fo all thgwor uyo oylstm, eht ptreyt uoprd y'ovue ofr 'mi nrpeolas. Os uyo if anerymo phoe oot, nto er'uyo i enve be secialdtii wdoul drpou.
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Srtngo nhkti i vrye esnpro ve'you bceeom a. Uoy, one i ktnih aubot rtgyin alyasw of 'euyro eth so si ot bene bset hntsig you flie ysae not atht but ash.
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Of nctiapoerm and a uyo elwhi) oson hte ehop gktina rof tee,rlt nsosel uoy htat eht i( sfaee-clr kahnt i raeln clrlae. Ton shfre oot lte neaiv a rdanrduge anmy eolg,elc ewhn yuo ot ryt popele yoejn dan uoy loetipx rae. Iaptntmro ruoy crehsih [] ouy uyo wlil (an dagerua)t eetm frtea etsim sola prsone wiht.
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Nay eht in 2210 apkr ctiinob ywa, rfeeob hacs oyu evha yb.

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