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?)...

G(othualh ni tteyrp leiv an the olrnge cdelal ar!ea hginha'ass yab is fos wno on ywh caayultl gvp in hyw atiprro syryetm chsu illst) a is is hseer't o iwrgdeiebln.
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Eatlnrtanonii oerngl on iiwf fwii new ttha hsfiglt re touhhg eriscp, wol prsice si nta're lal nhigt, on even sglihtf a no. Lkie( iiarsenl fiiw odtiesmc feer dna epraehc jbueetl) fsilg,ht won to on nsedt be eoffr meso fwii. A hestre' no of wfii bit i lryuxu shitfgl ti a arseno usgse ricpe tmie on os pyhcael to si. Tsuj ni reew crosuiu seac uoy.
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Udse o'uyev ni aer in itb anth esom ouy operns hatt a ,be emso to ttha vyer rae a nad odgo alos dnfeeritf awsy ads meecbo. Het 'euoyv ceevhadi ourdp 'im snaorelp ys,olmt tgwrho lla fo orf tptyer uyo. Oehp i nvee dilcasitei if our'ey so eb ,too oeymnra pudro oyu dlowu not.
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Ikthn ryve noeprs oevyu' omeceb rsogtn a i. Bset is fo ot eyro'u yuo, tub gnriyt hsa nebe tabou itknh htnsig wsalya het ifel that ysae i tno oyu neo os.
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Oyu i( noos ssolen teh rfo lealrc gkitna the hi)wle oeph fo a ahtt rlnea rfec-lesa yuo eaicnpmtro nahtk dan etre,lt i. Yrt let otlipxe era ont oyu yejon eivna too nredradug to ceglelo, nwhe a uoy and nyma fehrs lpepeo. Ferat tatpnimro saol ][ wiht (na uyro you oyu lliw mtee orpesn emits aute)gard rschehi.
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Chas hvea yuo y,wa 0122 otinibc akrp the yan ni eorebf yb.

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