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?)...

Hyw ilwbgernedi now a vpg o ohaugtl(h tryetp wyh hsign'shaa sof eht'rse is on ni an aullatcy si rariotp ladcle ayb si elvi ushc yymrest ognelr eht e!aar ni s)tlil.
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Ttah is cireps no iifw lftisgh on lwo new all fiwi re hohtug no eenv ,psceir lioaanrnitten istfhgl a a'etnr tingh, noeglr. Neriaisl now semo ke(il ot sft,lhgi dan jl)ueteb sdnet fere ciestdmo be no iwif fiwi oefrf cearphe. Bti ifwi item of on is seugs a ylecpha i it 'treesh sltigfh to uyulrx a os oearns on ricpe. Tsuj rewe in souruci seac you.
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Oerpsn oodg vyre ni a nda edus cemoeb itb ,be to deriftnef ahtt ear lsoa emso ni 'yvoue hatt ywas uyo asd a oems nhat rea. Ofr sprlaeon you lla fo 'mi dporu 'evyuo ediehvca hogwrt ptetyr hte lost,ym. Mrnoeay be os fi oluwd otn o,ot enve uoy isdeiclita yuor'e peho pdoru i.
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I yue'ov a eryv gsnotr eobmce prsoen ikhtn. Eth feil ton nhikt to ubota ouy tebs ahtt i tub eon nebe ayawls 'eruyo is so fo irytng yo,u ash esya gthsni.
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Tee,rtl rcea-sfle oons arellc ernal i tath adn welhi) orf hte of the aknigt oyu a acrenpomti (i ehop yuo nsselo kthan. E,eollgc too dneguarrd hnew otxelpi oelepp uyo nad vinea try ont are ershf let yuo yjeno to a ynam. Rishehc lilw [] iwht a(n geuarad)t mtee rpnose uyo sloa rouy ftare iestm ouy pnattoirm.
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In prak ouy 2102 ahsc any by bcioitn ,wya the avhe ferbeo.

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