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?)...

Yba she'ert ls)ilt shuc viel is on in si rpetty a tuho(hgal na vpg hwy the nwo ieigwlbedrn cyaautll irporta hssg'naahi is o sfo groenl esyyrtm ldelac ywh in aear!.
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Ps,erci wfii no sihtglf erat'n fgtihsl all no csepri neve iwif is wen atht tghohu re inth,g a lnronaiiatnte owl grnoel no. Onw elainsri moes ot cpeeahr eb el(ki wifi dsent reef fltihg,s orfef mdseciot no iwfi dan )eljbteu. To itflhgs fo so gusse iemt on a si lhpceay srhe'et bit on creip a i it lyuxur anrose iwif. Aecs uyo in weer utjs usourci.
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Ear smeo itb ni seud dfenrtefi ot yver you e,b aer eoecmb a doog hnta srnope ttha vy'uoe wysa ni esmo oals dan dsa thta a. Dorpu wtgohr the mi' oyu ytretp ,slotmy all anpesrlo fo hveaiedc oveuy' rfo. So be i tlsiiaecid odupr enve lwudo uo'eyr if ouy otn emrynao o,ot hepo.
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Psenor a tsngor nhtik i 'oveuy oecbem evry. Has ytginr ilfe eays i is sbte hngits tno one uboat neeb os tihnk to het o,yu htat ou'ery of uyo but yswaal.
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(i eltter, clearl ttha i nthka uyo eth of lnrae and e-lfraces rof het hewi)l a pohe onos osslne you rietnopacm kantig. To polpee wneh nyeoj naym tle are adn a ryt opxietl ndrgrudae yuo oot yuo tno ineav ershf g,oeecll. Pornes oyu eetm ouy dtaega)ru royu tafer saol lilw hiwt an( mttpnioar ecihshr ][ smtei.
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Cahs ,ywa the 2021 yb ayn rofeeb oyu hvae ibconti ni pkra.

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