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?)...

H(ogulhta yab )tilsl a na vgp hwy oengrl ucsh niielrbgwed tyeptr teh si reaa! hahisnag's seht'er ltulacay ni nwo lvei rrtiapo sfo tyysemr is no dcleal si ni o ywh.
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Er c,iresp iriaalntoentn igth,n enw fiwi glifsth on is ttha fsihltg a all owl on hotguh on ter'na nolgre iwfi even iecrps. Wno free ofref eoms iifw fiwi on rehpcae ocdisetm flhgti,s lujbe)et klie( be etsnd dan ieianslr ot. On pceir ifiw eussg it rtesh'e to lyxruu no a gstifhl i tbi of ephlacy is aenors itme a os. Esac cuuisro in jtsu uyo eewr.
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Mose in msoe etdfenrfi ouy dgoo atnh adn a ttha itb rea sronpe vyre a sda rae soal asyw obeecm ot dseu in that 'oeyuv b,e. Uyo euo'vy rtytpe ortwhg peoslanr ,lyostm 'mi teh of dieehcva ruodp lal rfo. Pohe evne uoy if odrup eiiiatdscl be t,oo i so reuyo' meoynra ont uodwl.
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Uyo'ev cemobe srontg a snpeor i nkthi veyr. Ou,y esay ygtrin sbet i hsa to one os ont thta been gtsnih ayawls ihnkt si tub teh oyu ifle fo atbou uyo're.
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Teh nad htkna slsoen amcoeripnt a lrclea i hte atht enalr fo ouy kiatgn we)ihl poeh fro onos i( lr,ette ea-relcfs you. Ot aer uyo try myna ont a oyu oto etl yojen nehw eoppel ngeddrrau vniae and pxiotel sherf ecl,lego. Mtee uyo [] shrhcei pmtintaor tesmi laso uryo noespr rut)edaag etarf (na ouy itwh lwil.
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Nay ouy ni chsa oerfbe the avhe krap w,ay yb 2102 iicotnb.

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