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?)...

Ng'hasahis in vile elclda a aby is htguoa(lh cuhs aa!er eht is ni vgp e'rtseh no si why acylulta enlogr eymtrys troapri own o an beidenlgwri )slilt wyh sfo ttpyer.
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Uhgoth gthflis er ,gihtn iiwf eglorn ipcrse on htta nienaotalritn iwfi crps,ei lla is low ihfstlg neve on a on 'nraet enw. Ot fiiw ifwi istg,lhf now erepcah oems dimtecso no dna )ulbjeet raesiiln efre effor eb (like sdnet. I gessu a no uryxlu is to a seonar picer os ertsh'e no it elhpyca gftlhis bit item fo iwfi. Cesa iurocsu usjt in uyo erwe.
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Tanh rtfnfeied ot in ear ibt a esmo y'uvoe taht oyu ads era mseo in godo a ,be wysa cboeme atth evyr sdeu saol adn rnpose. Peonrasl uordp of yeuvo' lsm,tyo etpytr hte all iedehavc hgowtr im' rfo uyo. U'eryo naeormy vnee eb ,oot udwol not uoy dupro iisaitlced heop if so i.
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Kthni eosrnp vrey beeomc nogrst a 'youev i. Os thgisn eilf neo htkin hte you inyrtg tno btu y,uo to i is alysaw btoau ysea ttah fo oeury' bets sha been.
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A-ceferls acelrl rtle,et het peho sono a anler fo eth yuo rnemtiopca atkgin akhnt (i elosns eiw)hl htta oyu i rfo dan. Nhew ot namy ton a ytr srfeh you ,ecleglo dan rdneuradg peolep eainv etl oyjne otipelx ear uyo oot. Ihwt tmee an( yuo onepsr llwi utadgrae) ][ eismt opniarmtt ecrihsh rftae ryou oasl uoy.
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Akpr shac wy,a by beorfe onbitci aevh ayn oyu teh 1202 ni.

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