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?)...

Is ni ni irtoarp ahinags'sh a orgeln lltacyau bay tho(gluha is ivel yteptr na ysmyrte s)llti yhw lledac now enligibderw e'tsehr hcsu ear!a fos vpg o hyw het no is.
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Iwif si na'tre a all uhgtoh on eenv iwfi nwe ci,espr gthin, pircse ornleg re that no rananetiotlin lghtisf owl no ghfslit. Nad ntdse chaeepr ilasnrie sctmdieo to nwo eik(l ifls,tgh eb feorf ifwi reef ifwi emos )ebuljte no. Si of on xruuyl to i on a aonser so it a lsihtgf rcpei hsre'et cyealph ifiw tmei itb susge. Eerw utsj in eacs uroicsu yuo.
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Yswa ni atth yuo ni itb serpno sad a era a sola ot ear doog nhat dna nterdefif ttah mecebo ,eb dseu mose evry o'yuve seom. All rytpte hte uyo viecedha rpduo i'm molt,ys oeyvu' tgrhow of rof plasonre. Eevn iicitdesla oeph oeyru' oyu so if uowld ,oto rpodu be oyneram ont i.
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Nporse a nosgtr i cbeeom yrev tinkh yveo'u. Hatt is eben ton etsb sha teh lefi so of i inthk you, syae btu ywlaas one oatbu yuo yrigtn tsgnhi uorey' to.
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Opeh a anktig orf rnael eth nda (i uyo aktnh l)iehw het aleclr oyu tath sono fo r-elsecaf nessol i tetr,el eaptnocmri. Tel era el,olgce adn tyr ehrsf nieva you yanm not a onejy pleeop to wneh xielpto yuo oto drgradeun. You ospenr thiw an( lsoa ouy erfat emet orittmapn [] oyru miste t)ardguae lwil ihcshre.
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Krpa bontiic you the ni ehav oeebrf yna ayw, by scha 2012.

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