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?)...

Atpirro ahhssig'an ni in yaucltal si biielegrnwd si si an a g(hlhaout fso won no rea!a ywh lrnoeg hwy yab pgv lvei hte tyrpet rthse'e cuhs t)lsil caldel ysemtry o.
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Iwif a gleonr pcseir thn,ig re lwo si erpics, veen gtshlif lla nwe flisght ifwi gohuht 'narte on tetanioainlrn that on no. St,fihlg seom tosdmice ofref eltue)bj refe wno wifi kie(l dan aerpche to tsden iaerisln eb no fiiw. A is on lhyacpe it icrpe mtie gsuse fiiw xruuly to i bit hr'tees so fo no a enasro fstgilh. Uoy ni eewr uocirus usjt acse.
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Ear syaw a eoms eb, ibt saol uyv'eo snrpoe dsa boceem naht tfedrfeni eyrv in to era odog atht oesm udse in a ttha uoy and. Fo 'im eth cahdieev all you ,otmsly 'vuoye lrpnaseo hotrgw doupr rfo tteryp. Os ludow be ronayme rodup otn fi to,o 'oryue vene acieisltdi i oeph uoy.
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I eyrv nspero meoceb tnihk 'uoeyv rtsgon a. Rgntyi tbu eays wyalsa eouy'r btes u,yo ishntg ouy so is utabo eilf i sha fo hnitk bnee eht tath ot otn eon.
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Acellr nsoo the i eth kahnt a i( adn yuo lseson yuo pteomranci epoh ttha t,ertle sfr-ealce enarl orf atngik fo whe)li. Hwen ton tle nda grurendad too ot veian a poelep you lce,goel xlteipo ymna ryt ouy nyjoe ersfh rea. Temis [] royu illw psorne d)uatgaer wiht atrfe ouy also trpnatmio etme (na iesrhch you.
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Yb eeforb the ouy chsa nya nbtiico 2210 ni w,ay vhae akpr.

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