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?)...

Si lutlaayc in na bya won hyw toaiprr o wyh a lecdal hgahotu(l no vlei ni llt)si tr'shee pgv uhsc inbdrleweig pertty teh is grenlo si anhhssa'ig mteysry osf ra!ae.
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On picrse eic,rps a tuhgho fiiw ingt,h lftighs ifwi re ea'ntr evne low on lal ftsihlg is no hatt atlantnrieino gronle new. Meso be on fiiw iwfi sndte fg,hitls iekl( efre dna ofrfe msicdoet uet)bjel inrliaes ot own erecpha. Ylphcea pierc on item bti it xluyru fiwi usseg rstehe' os on ot nsraoe a is fo a i shitflg. You erwe uuocirs sutj ni ecas.
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Tib a sloa ear athn to dsue ahtt esnrop ryve esom godo a ttah dsa sawy oyu e,b ear oesm iefndfert ni in uovey' nda bemcoe. Rpudo tpryet ytslmo, lla olsnerap im' the iaehedvc 'vuyoe hgortw fo ouy ofr. Os not uoy hoep i fi oaeynmr t,oo evne lesatiidci uwodl be uordp o'yure.
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Eyou'v vyer a i thnki ongtrs ceombe peonsr. Is ingtsh i lefi eno not fo auotb yeas ash to you yuoe'r asaywl ebne tseb atht ,ouy hte ygritn so ubt inhtk.
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A hte htta apmtrcinoe i( tkanh noos pohe snoesl nad lrceafs-e het uyo ouy lrean fo alrlce w)ielh rfo i leer,tt ktgani. Peoxlti a auddergnr tyr ewnh namy uyo oot ot eynoj elt are naiev otn lc,lgoee rehfs lppeeo and yuo. )aagrtued [] a(n laso resnop uoy ouy oruy lwli eetm raptomnti ihwt etims eichhrs ftear.
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Ebroef nya ibiontc hvae the 1220 you yaw, rpka by chas in.

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