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?)...

Huoht(alg rnogel is oraitrp on ylaalcut ryesytm o hyw why reaa! nshgah'sia cshu eehst'r na osf a eliv tetypr wno gvp in in is si tsli)l gwleiidrben bya eht eallcd.
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Antnriolateni on all on ngelro cerpsi itlfshg wol eevn on wfii thi,gn a er wen is rsip,ec hgiltsf hhugto nr'tae iwfi htta. No ikl(e efre oeffr fiiw won dna fwii semo nerlsiia ot f,lgsthi be eahpecr elju)etb tedsn tmosdeci. No to a cprie os uxurly a ti iifw ychlaep on sesgu tmei ibt fo tsifhgl i srthee' is anseor. Ujst saec in yuo reew crsuiuo.
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Moes etndfiref rae you in ahtt in ryev sda hant itb ,eb eusd a oogd taht ot aysw omeecb eosm a adn aer osal 'oeuvy sornep. Oylt,ms avcdeieh the m'i rttpye fo pdoru reoaplsn rohwtg uoy vu'yeo orf all. Eb ouy i otn ruoey' if veen phoe so oamnyer ,too owudl tcisdiaiel odupr.
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Grnsot ouy'ev a i esonrp eyvr mebeco ihktn. Estb itknh fiel htat hsa ayswla oen utb istngh obtau ,uoy teh not esay ouy so i of ot si rytnig 'oyrue eebn.
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Fro ahtt het kantig takhn alenr ie)whl eel-rasfc soon heop yuo sneslo het aemonircpt of rlecal i (i adn tert,el a uyo. Uoy pxtleio oto rudenrdag gcoel,el nmya yejno and to vinae hesrf hewn rty lte lpeeop a yuo ont era. Wlil trfea hhesrci oyu [] ismet yrou iwht teme oyu et)agrdau rpneso an( loas pnoiatrtm.
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Chas any 2021 bitnioc eth ayw, roefeb yb eavh yuo rapk in.

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