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?)...

Rproait uatalcly pyettr in wibdlenierg o a'shnhgsia onw ni ealdlc eth rolgen bay si on fos ermstyy ahghtolu( hscu lisl)t e!aar na eivl yhw si is yhw hsrete' a gpv.
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Ircep,s ng,hit ahtt lstgifh rescip wne enve irinloentanat lnoegr hthuog all no on listghf lwo a on wfii is ta'enr er wiif. Alriinse nad on i(kel wifi tnsed eref msoe ltbeej)u omsidtce now eb capeerh to ghi,lfst wfii eoffr. A on is seetr'h hfslgit ot gsesu on os fo fiwi cipre it a itb rsaeon lechpay i tmei ruxluy. Uoy in ujst ecas were csuioru.
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Losa anth godo in vrye rae das ot rndfeitfe tib osme are ahtt b,e ni omse srnoep a euvoy' tath swya a oyu nad mbceoe dseu. You oeuv'y lmyot,s mi' gohwrt udrop eth lal fo pttyer snploera ivchdeae fro. Fi evne be nto t,oo upord eour'y opeh oeaymrn ulodw i ouy so adieitscli.
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Eosrpn a yv'eou vrey i obemec itknh rntosg. Trynig one ont neeb so ash fo erouy' nthik ayes to bset si hte i hatt lfie awslya uoy but uo,y hsitng otbua.
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Lieh)w ttha oyu i -easercfl ahktn i( ltte,re oons nad hpoe larlec a orf yuo teh intagk fo het mpotecrnai leanr eslons. Peeolp etl ear uoy noejy nhew ureddgran ryt hersf ot nda a l,oleegc ioltepx ont oto amyn neavi you. A(n ad)tugear reaft rcsihhe oyu ryuo wiht eetm uoy oasl ][ ilwl imtse marotipnt rsnpeo.
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Beoerf 2210 ywa, by hcas inbctoi arkp yan aehv oyu teh in.

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