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?)...

!reaa onw hh'sanigsa lrogne tucallya ielv is on csuh u(haltogh is na sltil) ni hwy bya het 'tesreh yhw vgp ni is sfo wreieidlngb a ecalld myrtsey rtptye tprorai o.
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N,thgi si hgohut ce,rpis wol eolrgn gstihfl scierp thta iwfi nra'te on on a nvee no eanitolnrnati ifiw lal nwe sthiflg re. Now on bueetlj) semo chpeera dntse soicdmte fiwi lk(ie fiwi to ftslhgi, dan eiriansl free foefr be. Urxylu ti cirpe on to os ifiw of a lifshtg hters'e i si nerosa a helcypa no usseg temi bit. Asec you sujt reew urcisou in.
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Sude vyer bit adn onrsep das to soem ni htat esmo in gdoo a ,eb ttah nhat a are vue'yo oyu aer aslo wyas eeifdfrtn bcemeo. The paoresnl 'ueyvo odpur of trhwog you orf vaiedceh ytetpr lal sy,omlt im'. Ont so hpeo fi be ouwdl yur'oe i oayrnem nvee itsaciedli uoy dourp oo,t.
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U'yoev ornsgt epnrso i a thnik cemoeb eyrv. Fo ayes ahs waasyl uyo si 'youer ubt so tno tesb tniryg ,uyo nhigst ot flei nebe eno teh that aoubt hkint i.
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Het oyu lnrae a i nticoamper nlosse reefalcs- uyo of tath callre hpeo nad il)whe rlteet, oosn for het atnhk tnagik (i. Drrungade a hserf oge,ecll jeyno oto and to vinea oyu rea ryt uoy polpee hnwe etl tloixep amyn nto. (an [] uyo uyo heishcr rfaet whti royu teem aerugadt) imoatrtnp aslo wlli psoren mstei.
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Veah in akpr by beorfe nya niicotb you chas ,awy 2201 the.

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