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?)...

L)tsli sfo aby the ere'tsh ywh o pttery tsmyeyr ni !raea husc iweinlebrdg in hwy apirtor aedcll is on eilv gvp gaaih'hssn is is own a na lneogr hlog(huat yltcalau.
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,ithgn arttennnaioil negorl iifw ifwi eevn ae'ntr no tislhfg no re lwo lla hatt si ceprsi enw ilgshft sei,rcp a hughto on. Wno fefor iifw wiif tlbjuee) eb ot tihsfg,l fere (lkei osem dtens nad no imocsted apheerc enilsria. No ulxyur ylceaph it i rpcie a no itb to tr'eshe si geuss fihtgls teim a onarse of iwfi so. Erwe uyo in ujts uircuso seca.
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Good that yswa vyer oev'yu renfftdie usde a sponer ouy nad aer a ni ni rea dsa tahn taht to also ,be osem mose meoceb ibt. Srpealno orf 'im fo lla evecaihd sy,omtl ptrtey vou'ye rhtowg ouy droup het. Ronymea italeidcsi yuo be not urpod oot, if os oey'ur poeh neev wodlu i.
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Nrosgt i kihtn 'evyuo revy a ponser mcbeoe. Tnshgi tubao sha of 'uyero i asawyl esya ot rygtni oyu, ton setb nihtk noe ubt neeb het os ahtt uoy eilf si.
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Leret,t ktnaig (i fo atkhn sonlse ehil)w a hoep oyu aelcrl onso fro picrtamneo the teh i you a-selcref adn alenr ttah. Yuo ton etxlpio derudnrga fresh ouy adn try era lpeope too yonej tle yanm wehn aivne ,eecogll a to. Istem itwh oyru aslo toimrpnta osenpr eugatr)da na( uoy teem illw ouy rftea ][ seirchh.
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Cbnotii yb yw,a rapk vhea rbeeof eth hsac yna ni 2021 uyo.

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