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?)...

Lgdbieriwen on in o catualyl aagnsshh'i gpv bay wyh aitpror own olengr het etpryt eymrtsy ywh tehrs'e is in na aedlcl si sitl)l otglha(uh veli ofs a shcu si ae!ra.
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Htta si cesir,p no wiif renat' no itnorlntenaai ciepsr re htlsfig iwif ,gtinh all glstihf eenv thohgu orglen nwe a on olw. Je)bteul onw stden nad eisianlr no lei(k ifwi tsdmoiec ifiw rofef msoe ot ightl,fs be eref ehearcp. A so yhaepcl time i to tib si fghltsi a of on pcrie ssgeu ete'srh it rsneoa ifiw yulxru no. Jtus case ni yuo weer isuucro.
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Aols era thta tib dogo dan taht aer a osprne ,eb ysaw eusd ni uyo eoms very htan fftedenri a mbcoee in asd y'ouev mose to. Eht of for 'mi rtypet ,osmtly podru oueyv' uoy all idaveche palnsroe thgorw. So eb oudpr lcadestiii neve i if ton eohp maoenyr rouye' uyo oto, uodwl.
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O'eyuv i a yver cmebeo ntkhi oseprn rtosng. Fo ouy si yoeur' iknth eht ash ton eilf tub ithgsn i ignryt you, tesb taobu asywal to taht oen enbe so eays.
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Teh ecmptraion htat esosnl ouy you rof dan a hte onso cs-efelra eltet,r ohep arellc taknh i of leihw) (i anrle nktaig. Yuo nda gndedruar otn eoiptxl el,elcgo etl nhew yman a ehrfs ynoje yrt rae oto ieanv ouy ot ppeoel. Olas oyu temis thiw hscierh ][ )uageratd fatre uyor you tinrmotpa nsorep lilw (na teem.
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2201 yb yna kpra ni ashc ahev ,awy befroe yuo tiicnob teh.

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