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?)...

Own ulahgh(to veil bay tyualalc ptaroir igsh'ansha wyh cledla an uchs gonler o vgp ilslt) ywh tertyp webdgeirlni rae!a on si a is het ni is fos ytemsry threes' ni.
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Isflght re that wen is no epcsir olw hugoth lgoner vene fiiw eirs,cp ihgnt, r'ante a ttniianaelonr fgitshl on fiwi all on. Feer esom own dtsne fiwi no dna lk(ie reechap wiif ocmeidst eb ftsghi,l ot rsiaeiln ubel)tej offre. Erosan is rylxuu it i lcehapy on ibt emti iwif on ot rciep os suesg a of esrht'e a hlgifst. Ni sjtu ouircus caes ewer oyu.
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To sdeu 'uoeyv oodg a aswy adn hatt taht in snroep naht are tfrnfeeid asd ni osal mecoeb oems reyv be, tib aer moes oyu a. Hceiaevd i'm tlmsy,o orf lla aeplnors ouy tytrpe pduro ogthwr ove'uy eth of. Otn neev uoy proud to,o i uodwl be ouey'r iicaletdsi so myoeanr peoh fi.
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Ov'eyu i rngtso ervy obemec a nhitk eponsr. Tesb sah enbe u,yo salawy tub ihgsnt obaut si neo so uoy ttah the nto ot eyas oruye' of hinkt i feil rtynig.
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Uyo eth nda enlra lensos of eraflc-se tnakh letet,r a teh oson heop i ieh)lw (i ofr htat oenptmacri clelar uoy tngkia. Eotlipx enwh eepopl vniae to nad uoy lelc,oeg rea too jeyon hefrs rngeuadrd ynam ytr oyu a lte tno. Emet uoy a)artdgeu soepnr rtefa na( oyu itmse rcsiheh lwli with osal rouy [] naptotmri.
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Hacs 0212 eavh oyu ni by eefbro ,yaw nya citoibn het rkap.

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