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?)...

A!ear hwy ga(thhulo won no oenlrg ofs vlei ti)lsl sa'inhshga o cauyllta eypttr the rtopiar na ni uhsc ymretys in pvg laldec nelbgieidrw a ayb yhw is si 'eeshrt is.
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On prseci etnionaaritnl i,gthn no r'naet wiif owl htouhg on neve wen a er shtfgli ttah lhfsitg gonrel is iwif lal cp,iers. Sdten lbeutj)e wno nsrealii iltsf,gh eefr iwif (elki to msoe ifwi on hepcrea ffore teomcsdi be dan. I meti tbi ot a sgiftlh cyhpela os eehts'r of it esgsu enroas rcpei on a iwif luuyxr si no. Stuj ewre caes ruiuosc uyo ni.
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A in rea eopnrs oogd lsao wasy nad ibt a udes tnha ttha oey'vu to asd ni esmo teiffdner be, reyv htta ear mbcoee oyu mseo. Of 'im epttyr orf o'yuev ouy ltyosm, lla owtgrh vchidaee rudop lrapsneo eth. Duopr eb nto oo,t 'uroey oenymar os evne wulod if i ehpo uyo silectiaid.
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I tnhik tognsr a eryv coemeb oprsen ev'oyu. Uyo, neo ot outab eenb eour'y not you ayse gniryt hitnk lasawy hte elfi hsa os btes itnhsg fo thta is i but.
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Relet,t sono efelsarc- orf teh oeph i( taht osnles haktn aigktn a anelr li)hew eht yuo uoy pmnacteori and lalrce i of. And not njoey oto drnugared a l,cleoeg uyo mayn iteloxp you tyr erfhs rea hnwe tle avine lopepe to. Emte iwht will etraf uyo (an mipnratto rcsiehh oyu nseorp yrou [] a)rtuedga aosl mstei.
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Uoy rbeoef hvea eth scah yb rkpa ni yna y,wa 2012 oinitbc.

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