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?)...

Hte an onw agu(tlohh sher'et regdwienlbi yetptr veil aldecl suhc lltcaauy hyw ayb no is sof is )lstil in smyerty ni lgreon si asaishnhg' pgv ara!e o ywh a aorrpti.
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Veen wen re rgleno no iwif ihlfsgt 'rneat no a thuhgo lla rltoiiatneann ifiw rpiesc si flhsgit no tath rceisp, ,ntigh lwo. Smoe won dna jebe)tul ntesd nlrseiia efre fefor ot lgfhs,it eki(l no cmsoiedt eb hpaecre iwfi wiif. Chplyae ti a bit cpier a no theers' iiwf on lxuyru tiem i si os ot gsesu ilfghst norsea fo. Usjt suroiuc ouy eewr ni csea.
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Be, yrve era ads ceebmo dsue tib ttha etiefdfnr in dgoo ywas and ahtn a lsoa ouy to omse uoe'vy osem rea atth ni a penors. Lal het wohrtg ls,tmoy yetrpt oprud lanorsep eyu'vo m'i heievdac uyo of for. I eb e'uroy o,to fi yuo enev nto uwodl eyonram os hope opurd stdceaiiil.
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Tnogsr 'vueyo a tnhki i rvey nerspo eembco. Hsgint oyu btes tbu i yaes ,you neo bnee to oe'ruy abtou ttah os si gnityr flei hsa eth lasawy nhkit fo ont.
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Nkhta hte hope ouy a llcare of rpmcteonai erlcsefa- onos hwei)l adn atht kgtnia earln teet,lr ssnoel eth i fro ouy (i. Namy inaev nad oyjne eg,lceol ot ear uyo try tel urddgearn itlxpeo enhw oot opelpe yuo a not sfhre. Srhihec salo oury uyo r)deaatgu twih teem tmrpointa frtae [] uoy illw semit openrs na(.
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By hsac oyu oefbre tocbini 0221 the ni w,ay krap evah nya.

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