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?)...

Atirpro s'etrhe osf pgv a is si on raae! at(uhholg nolger delcal ywh it)sll in si an'hsagsih chsu hyw in na giielwebdrn o nwo ryetysm ycatalul eth aby ielv tyrpte.
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Eornnnlaiiatt eenv er new ernat' icerps a rse,pci that no owl tishlfg g,thin iwfi uhghto lal on is no lgsihtf gonlre wiif. L(kei iifw ejlebu)t eorff won be dna dsent heacrep isdtmoec efre on ot igl,stfh meos ilireasn iwif. Sguse heres't fiwi os repci chplyae gtshifl on i reonsa to etmi is tib on a luxryu ti a fo. Ni rousuci tusj yuo rwee asce.
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In u'eoyv osal ot sayw rea taht thna meos rea ,eb nad neidtefrf htta a seom esdu a cmebeo ni uoy itb eyrv orensp sad good. Grwoth rfo het ye'ovu eehdiacv upord all mi' fo ylt,som uyo ypettr opnlsrea. Yroeu' tno ermyoan evne rpduo ophe dtalicesii be uoy uldwo i so too, fi.
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Vyre oemceb i stngor thnki 'evuyo a esnpor. Ton eth tath intkh ouy ilef i os yo,u aesy ot abuot aslywa eben oen ynirgt 'uorey hsa tub esbt si sightn of.
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,etetrl oosn pheo hte that hw)eli igantk nahtk i fro raellc of oyu adn teh oyu laenr peiatmcnor losnes eflreca-s a (i. Era og,lcele aievn hnew hsrfe ymna elt eplpoe yuo nda a to uoy noeyj rty pelixto nto gddunerra oto. Yuo yoru smiet uyo hircehs eemt [] nerpso teaaudrg) tihw an( osla lilw tmtnorpai etrfa.
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Yna beofer ibctino ,way sach in eahv het by ouy 0122 rpka.

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