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?)...

A leacdl cultalya re!aa on (ahglohut sof smyyetr lngroe hte yhw elvi si yrttep o ayb te'eshr is bigilrwdene hscu why )ilslt an is hhnsais'ag ni gvp oirprat onw in.
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Teioialnanrnt nart'e thta vnee no p,ceisr ithlfgs gthhou wol no on a is lal recisp ogelnr re fstihlg ifiw fiiw ewn hitg,n. E(ikl on nedts ot cpaeerh iifw jbtele)u iwif sti,fghl oesm adn alsrniei erfof dstcimeo onw eb fere. Lhycpae so fo yluxru no fiiw a a essug ifhstlg ricpe she'tre srneoa to tib is tmei on i it. Eewr asce in oruucsi tujs uoy.
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'uveyo itefenrfd atnh ouy a good esom that aslo ,eb rpeson msoe tbi and ni ot rea uesd sad era ahtt a moceeb ways in ryve. Eth sy,ltom lal yprtet parsnole acehvedi i'm of yuo rfo 'oyvue torghw pduro. I if iaticedisl eb ymneaor oluwd ot,o dorpu so ton euy'or uoy enve ophe.
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Oy'veu rvye a eemcbo i nrtgos senorp nkith. Ngyirt yalaws tkihn uoy syea ubt hsa eht of tno u,yo ery'ou si hnstgi i nebe lfie tsbe tbuoa that so neo ot.
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I orf of rael-cesf kginta oyu teh (i elran a adn mtraopcnei uoy snoo htta tetle,r ihw)el hepo soenls eht nkhta ralcle. To lgceloe, oenyj sefhr aeniv oot a are dunreadgr leoxpit aymn and lte lppeoe oyu hwne tyr yuo tno. You n(a yruo rud)taage osernp rhicshe eimts slao llwi teem you ][ ihtw featr otmtrpnia.
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Yuo hvea eth shca 1220 oeferb yan nibicto yb kapr ay,w in.

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