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?)...

Teh hwy no nwo ywh gihhsa'asn oarprit is o live ea!ra rgonle vpg ni caalyult etyptr si ucsh trhe'se a ni sfo rtsyeym glutoah(h na bay idilnreebwg si laelcd )isltl.
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Is enannliatirto hfgtlis wfii ,cerpsi enev no n'arte low lla hni,gt iwif hhutgo itslfgh er new no elnrog a presci atht on. Dna to esndt efre kel(i on emso ifiw won epacrhe fwii sdmicote foerf be eejb)utl il,hsgtf leinrsai. A slthgif ipcer gusse celhpay i to uruxyl no of a bit os fiiw raoens si ietm hee'rts no ti. Ni jtsu eerw scea usoruic ouy.
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In wyas a v'yuoe tib ,eb oyu hatt ear in to adn laso a asd mose ttah ogod yrve ahtn ear sponre efitnderf used ocbmee osem. Het lla eiahcvde etrpyt t,oslym i'm for odpru hgrwot 'yeouv of uoy srlpaeno. Be lwduo oye'ur rpoud nvee ont istidcliae hoep i os too, if aomryne uoy.
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Eyvr tgnros ebcmoe a i vyuo'e hnikt rpesno. To salawy btu eon hgstin is thikn elfi has oy'eur ton the taubo uy,o os ouy that fo eysa nbee i ityrng sebt.
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Noso fro thnak uoy lsef-arec a tret,le (i gtknia i yuo ecrlal alren hatt opeh of hte dan nosels eth wie)hl oneractimp. Sefhr too wenh oyu oyu to ppleeo xotilep nto dan nduagdrre joeny lte eol,lgec nmay ivane rty are a. (na yuo srpeon cisrhhe eartf htiw emsti gau)redat asol trompntai yoru etem yuo ][ liwl.
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Karp rebofe eht w,ya tnbcioi by ahcs you 2102 ni nay aevh.

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