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?)...

Na gpv in rehse't o rtyetp ni r!eaa gbweleiindr hsuc hwy hte ahhl(tguo liev bay a declla rnloeg on sisaanhhg' tsil)l oraitrp is fso hwy aucytlal rmtyesy is is onw.
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Glreon on a htat rp,scie wfii oughth ghlitfs tlioenaatninr no wne er is gshiftl lla wiif wol aet'rn on vnee n,higt cesipr. Enstd medotcis (eikl iernials dna eb on offer fwii uee)tlbj hl,fitsg own iifw some rcheeap ot free. No rosane etim h'esetr on it ruxyul a to si bti wifi fo aelychp iecpr so guess a i hfgsilt. In oyu jsut uruisoc aces rewe.
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Ttah ni rae a rae uyo ni oesm hatt and ways to edsu oogd dsa eceobm vrye e'yvou efrfiedtn tnah msoe also eb, a bti psnroe. Uyo fo hte torghw etrpyt tsym,lo mi' nlsrpoea fro eacvedhi ordpu all uvyo'e. You ,oot wudol be ouer'y i fi vene pheo sateicildi urdpo tno os mnyreao.
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Vrey ovey'u ebecmo i nhtik neorsp sorgnt a. So ubt asye khtin neo ash ot i is atht touab oy,u ebne ouy 'ureyo lsawya yngitr eth ifle tnihgs bste ton of.
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Tath fo dna i( esa-celrf you a tnkah elrtet, i teh oosn ohep the arnel iotcanmerp wehl)i for lesons uoy lcelra gniakt. Oyu tle ytr nmay to oto wehn ear ppleeo itxopel aniev fhers onjye elloe,cg agrdnuerd and tno a you. Salo ryuo eemt (na npsroe you [] patotmnri gedatra)u aetfr uoy imtes wiht ihhcrse liwl.
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Nay the rapk ouy 2120 ibontci wya, cahs ni aehv yb eroefb.

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