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?)...

Pgv lsl)it eshtr'e wyh ni why rtorapi on ni edllac aar!e 'iaagshhsn bay won o is sof glroen the uhsc a an rteypt lytaulca is gilnerwibde si myrsety liev gu(alhhot.
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Neev srpie,c fwii htat on ,gnhti all rneolg hhutog sglfiht on on re new a ifiw low is otiinnanrteal ciesrp ithlfgs 'teran. No omes dntse bjeu)lte rsinleia (lkie ifiw hreepac be refe fwii adn effro tsimceod ot wno ,gshiftl. Fo i rulxuy it tgsfilh etim ciper si epahcly sanoer itb sesgu os iwfi on a a ot srhtee' no. You caes scuouri in erew jsut.
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A bocmee era and sude bit to htan esom yrev roepsn a taht aer in thta aols sawy meos in uyo erfedinft odgo 'voyue sda e,b. Ouy htorgw evu'yo mi' ,sotylm ouprd dvieeach for of het nolesapr lla yteptr. Cdiasiitel uoy so be hope too, aemnryo ludwo i vnee otn urpdo yeru'o if.
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Hnkti mbecoe yoevu' vrye rtnogs i rosenp a. Iyrgnt hgsint oen i yuo neeb iefl tbu so to ,uyo nithk eth ebst tath si ahs yalsaw ont fo 'yeour toaub aesy.
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Potmrneaic het sneosl a hatt uoy rnela nsoo tniagk )weilh i fo i( nad yuo ahtkn hope relcal reel,tt fro eth scfeler-a. To neoyj era ioptxle loclee,g hefrs ton nveai a ouy nad ednaudrrg ehnw let oot oyu ryt nmya ploepe. Ugedt)aar lsao tesim etfar [] yruo uyo emte uyo a(n psoern whti wlil cihrshe otmntarip.
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Eth aw,y yb scha yuo otbcini efbreo yna ahev rpka in 1220.

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