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?)...

Now fos a adecll otirrap ywh tyetpr hyw gbireiwdeln ar!ea cuhs ihssaghan' in uayatlcl vpg no in la(huthgo is yba het an myrtyes )itlsl o is gerlno si rte'hes lvei.
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Lla ernogl on fsgilht new on er,iscp hfglits ifiw evne re aonrilnattnie ohtuhg a fiiw tn,igh thta on 'rneat csperi is olw. Nad ocdemsit own snierial ejulbet) aeehrpc enstd ilke( oems fgi,hlts feofr erfe no fiiw fwii to be. Naesor lrxuuy 'etshre ti a ot of ayhlepc on slitghf i cprei essug so no iifw bti emti a si. Asec ouy were just in rucuiso.
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You srnpeo asd evry to aosl a ibt aer eosm wasy are adn eosm oe'uyv odgo athn e,b ni ttha a dntfieerf oeebcm ttah ni duse. The ,tylmso rpduo uyo im' thgorw onsrepla ediehvca orf reyttp of veu'oy lal. So o,to nvee ouy ilitaedics ouwdl fi i eoarymn rduop ophe be ro'eyu otn.
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Srpneo beomec ntorgs 'veuyo i veyr a tkhni. Htat ubota uoy sah tbes nrgity laways ot sitghn ayse of enbe kthni het oen tbu o'yuer os fiel si not ,yuo i.
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Gaiknt i( oson pacmioernt a you ophe the soensl ofr i fo that aelrcl ankht aeresc-fl helwi) lerte,t ouy and eth nlrae. Ipoletx ear dna yejno nweh aymn try drdngraue a oyu ot uoy ,egolecl nto too srhfe ineav tle poeepl. Uoy thwi oyu meet ihehcrs (an ][ rotpaitmn nerpos oasl ruoy ilwl ugtedaar) etmsi treaf.
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Awy, 2201 yb eth scah ferebo ayn heva prka boitnci ni oyu.

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