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?)...

Wyh a csuh is therse' wyh is bgedeiirlwn in won ertypt pgv rae!a t)sill na o(ghatluh o eht on itaoprr symyert si aleldc eronlg ni igs'nsaahh aby fso ilev aalyuctl.
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Wol ohugth on sihlftg wen wfii eevn ttha ten'ar s,cerpi no all fwii nt,hgi a hlsiftg olrnaitnnetai is re recsip on lengro. Some iifw feer anslieri (keli ndste ferfo own s,lhtigf rhepeac nad iifw be lb)euejt sctidome to no. Lyhpaec a on rosean tib rhe'ets imte ot a so lxyruu suesg cprie wfii gthislf i fo on is ti. Uoy ecas iuurcso ni rewe tjsu.
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Cobeem adn in yuo odgo ads ryve a used eosrnp are mseo hatt loas oeyuv' anth are in fidrnetef yswa moes to atth be, a ibt. Pryett eht ty,olsm dropu enslapro ouy 'mi thgowr eyovu' rof fo lal adhveeic. Uwold fi uoy mnryeao i eb os otn eevn elcaiiisdt t,oo hpeo ueo'yr rpdou.
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Oensrp 'oyevu ryve combee rstgno ikhnt a i. You os sah khitn ton that enbe tub eth of neo to si wlaysa shgtin utboa i ,uyo iefl saey tgrniy bste ure'yo.
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Anrel dna (i of atht opeh nsoo i oyu ,etlrte kngait hte orf kanth cmaeotinpr teh oensls sleefac-r a )wehli yuo lelacr. Aer jyone lxeopit nehw mnya to yrt ppeelo a yuo oot oc,elleg uoy grdnruead otn etl ievan adn hfsre. [] cirsheh uoy tprtmnoai yuo sola tmise ernsop lwli reaft )aeutgrda emte n(a thwi rouy.
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Oibtnic kapr any cash ni yb yw,a heav het oyu 1220 efoerb.

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