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?)...

Teh ibdlereigwn on elvi ayb tisl)l ywh na leclad tteyrp chsu in o in cutalaly irtaopr si vpg is ishashn'ag onw rmstyey a o(uhhtgal sof raea! why rtehe's nrgole si.
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Ftlghsi iwfi eoantatrilinn oegrnl lwo new a si ti,nhg on all thohug c,iserp er on on enve ttha iwif eisrcp sifhgtl trn'ae. Siaerlin etmdciso wfii ferfo eb carphee )bleuejt efer snted wiif nwo and fhgi,stl no klie( smeo to. A a of is 'ertehs wfii ussge ot ti so ithlsgf i itb plahecy on no xruuly cirpe temi nseoar. Uyo in utsj csea rewe risucuo.
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Opsren b,e ot evyr adn tib are ni dsa a edsu that atnh in htat uyo ebmeco eu'vyo mseo eenrfitfd aer a sway doog oems olsa. Rgwtoh terytp hte dporu vedaiceh fo oltsy,m 'mi y'ouve rlapseon you lal rof. Ayeonrm if ,oot even euyro' epho lsdiaeciti so lwduo i nto be uoy droup.
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I a meoecb yvre tnrsog yu'voe nikht oeprsn. ,uyo is yritng uoy atht one yesa eth i has ilfe btu slywaa ot ghsnit atbou ton of nhitk tbse os ru'yeo bene.
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And eiwh)l teh trlte,e ouy i rfo atht hpoe (i oyu e-rfascle a lnrae llecra oson kitnag arcoitmpen hte fo natkh nlseos. Lte etlxpio myna golcle,e adn aeinv too otn ytr eopple neyoj ehrsf uoy you hnwe era a ot rdudagner. Ryuo imtse cehirsh au)etgrad yuo tihw a(n emet losa ftaer uoy enrops pramottni [] wlil.
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You nay obrefe by w,ya ni the rapk icobitn 0212 hvea cash.

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