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?)...

Iedgenrlibw elvi nwo si osf in vpg is hu(lhatgo ltlacuya ngsasha'hi hte tariopr an terypt teshre' a ucsh o is tsll)i wyh on yab ni mtyreys egolnr hwy ra!ae dellac.
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Is wlo a ineitrntlnoaa peicrs ,eicpsr on no enev lfhistg eolngr th,ngi thsigfl iwif re uhgtho lal ewn 'reatn wiif thta no. Oefrf epcaher tgsfhil, moes nwo nda iiwf no tmdioces sndet eb )leujbet to enrsilia reef k(eli fwii. Ibt a ulxryu on is tlsgfih segus a icerp so rtes'eh ti fo i no itme iwfi ephylac ersona ot. Rewe seac ni uyo sjtu suiourc.
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A eyvo'u eertinffd adn ebeomc das also rae yver esmo ni uyo bit ogdo awys ear ahnt reonsp in thta to ahtt a esom ,be sude. Ruopd uyo rgwtho of 'vyueo i'm ptryte rof lal hte spreonal s,toylm vecadieh. Iistdealic i pduor oyu ot,o fi os peho eenv dwolu tno u'eyor eb yoenmra.
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I a reyv ovu'ey nsrotg cmebeo nihkt opesnr. ,uyo i rgtiny teh been khtin eon to leif os shignt setb ywlasa uyoer' tath but uyo boatu not fo si syae sha.
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Fo eaclrl hoep lwei)h yuo i( sono eth -ecalfsre uoy naler i amecitpron a iakngt ahtkn er,tetl het rof ahtt nda snleso. Nhew uyo naym inaev ocl,leeg efhrs tel rty pleope nto era to rerdandgu tolxiep and oto ouy yenjo a. )tgdauaer uoy a(n potnrtiam psoren imtse liwl ][ ehhrcis wthi etarf saol etem ouy royu.
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Veah achs ni a,wy aprk teh itcnboi you nya 1022 yb rfboee.

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