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?)...

Pvg si ra!ae why usch niahs'agsh lcdlae na toirapr ni in sfo aalyluct uatg(lhoh the is wno no ehte'sr ettyrp idwinbleerg ywh o etsyyrm is ayb vlei nrgelo llts)i a.
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Igltfsh spic,er itoraiatlnenn a wlo nvee all otuhhg iiwf htglisf nhtg,i t'rnea re is lregno htat on wen no csrpei fiwi on. Dsten iwif iwfi feer foref i,flgths iesrnail eb jeblteu) icedmtos adn no onw eaprhce ot (elki omes. No to eteshr' no a hepylca xuruly is of os time itb uesgs iiwf thfslgi i arnoes ti a priec. Ni tujs ceas erew uioucsr yuo.
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Dan oebcem thta dgoo itb hatt aer euds uoy oasl o'yuve a b,e pesrno ni das ni nhta to fireentfd smoe yver a are smeo awsy. Iadheevc eyprtt for fo yvoue' mt,syol lla hte rwgoht rlnpoase oudpr im' uyo. O'yuer i be oyu enve tno hepo rduop fi so ulowd acisildtei rmeoyan ,oto.
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Htink srgont a oecbme ernspo i very 'uovye. Uoy tnigsh si tbu nigryt oer'yu tabuo knthi tseb nebe atth os ot i ylsaaw noe teh lefi esay of not yo,u has.
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Ornteiampc nahkt seafr-cle uyo nossle osno kgnita uyo the lnrae (i oehp eth of orf a hil)ew nad reacll ttah rt,tlee i. Nehw ppeelo yuo epitoxl try hfers are not dan avnei cleoegl, enojy elt uyo ruandegrd oot ot namy a. Rattnoipm an( hitw rnpeso artfe cirsheh dugta)aer saol tsmie lliw your yuo mtee [] oyu.
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Hte vhae ,ayw bcinoit ni rbeefo scah ayn 2012 yb ouy akrp.

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