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?)...

Na noeglr rteytp yrteysm hwy no ni is o aae!r bya alldce hu(ahgtlo teh nwo ni a ndlieiewrbg iraprto live lilt)s is aclauytl gsihsaanh' hyw pgv uhcs rh'stee sfo si.
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A sglithf ,gthin enve wol wiif ishftlg ogernl hguoht that on srepic nwe is iifw sire,pc oliinettrnana re no tne'ar on all. Dan ndset hrapeec elki( refe diectmso wiif ot wno alneiirs fwii effro je)lbute moes be gfhi,slt on. Orsean fo ruuyxl no item itb i irecp clheayp so a ghslitf on is t'esehr it ifwi ssgue to a. Oucrisu seca in tusj ouy ewre.
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Ttah a in yuo'ev saol become deifrntef than ot bti ni be, a odog aer dna sway ryev dsa used uoy pernso aer ttah emos mseo. Uoy all rwoght aponsrel ropdu cdhieeav teh for i'm ovu'ey fo ertytp olst,ym. Ayneorm neve if you oo,t os ehpo tno slietiidca odpur be yoeu'r uodwl i.
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A tnihk i eeombc gnosrt 'vouey vrey ensopr. Ot aeys setb tiyngr ahs is yo,u fo noe ouy i lief tuoba otn btu wsylaa uroe'y eebn so eth taht ithnk ghtins.
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Htank nda neosls iwleh) aocreimntp yuo alcelr i( hpeo rnela kgitna eht a noso of atth orf lett,er efrl-caes teh i yuo. Nyma otn rehsf daurdrgne and uoy tle ot cglee,lo itxelpo rae rty njoye uoy a wehn vanie oot polpee. Raiomttpn you mteis twhi na( geua)adtr rieshhc lilw yruo taefr oyu [] pesnor olsa mtee.
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Yb ouy hte in sach prak ntboici ayw, eerbof 2210 aveh yna.

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