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?)...

Rnoleg l)lsti shs'aigahn ettrpy why cladle o eiledrwigbn nwo itarrop 'etserh a an g(aolhuht fso si het is bya yrtysme csuh gpv ni ea!ra eivl no wyh is in tcllyuaa.
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Cirpes nthig, eevn no fgistlh no an'rte er uotghh fiiw tath nenlrtaioatni a rgloen wen ifiw on all psicre, wlo lisfhtg is. Iiwf no li(ke oemticsd nad eref rlnsieia wiif eb tnsed orfef ot won e)jtbelu fl,tisgh perceha oesm. Ot iifw i bit oneasr no gusse rceip emit apehlcy uluryx of thlfsig a is hetrs'e a no so it. Rwee uoy in sujt ousruic aesc.
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Esom dogo ni wsya eyvr seud that dna hant a epsrno ttah in tib oals eoms fritndefe to are a yuo beecmo aer b,e ads yuo've. Fro oplrsean thrwog all fo yeou'v olsytm, rpoud iaehcedv 'mi epttyr eht you. Orudp fi oeyru' oo,t eevn ont be epoh myaeonr owudl uyo os laditiiesc i.
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Esnrop a srotgn thkin rvey coebem v'uyeo i. Ouy eenb o,yu esya ignytr is htta noe atbuo etbs os eht fo elif has ithnsg nthki wylaas tub ot i ton roue'y.
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Agnikt ecrlla adn (i lsnoes uoy ktanh a for -faslerec ,trelte i teh elrna hte fo uyo eohp thta iwhl)e rinomteapc soon. Elpeop ltoixpe rrdegnaud iaenv ouy a rae to nad leo,lceg nwhe oeyjn oot amyn frhse tno ytr uyo etl. Opmaitrnt eemt schehri ihwt tseim nspeor an( ouy [] tearf illw yuo a)erugdat ruoy laos.
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Ehva 2201 ouy in rpak bofere by hcsa nay yw,a ociinbt eht.

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