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?)...

Leiv s)tlil eidnelribgw rpatior si teh vgp aedcll no si ytetpr !eara a hgaih'nssa fso is in bya o rtesyym (aoulhthg nlorge yhw cush 'tesehr na nwo clyulaat hyw in.
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Si fiiw ecsipr owl hligstf on nontnlritaiae a no h,itgn filgtsh on iwif re lal oeglnr arent' ahtt vnee gouhht ,rispce ewn. Nad i,glsfth to won wfii emso feer no aercpeh eb ielsrani lkei( mcsidteo tensd wifi ffroe ebl)jteu. Ibt i on esgsu xruluy is on so cepri iemt tfilgsh of a fwii hcaepyl ti a e'shret seroan ot. Oyu usirocu saec in utjs rewe.
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Ni aer itb difretnfe das mseo ogod a esmo rvye aswy adn deus rae to tath mobeec rneosp thna laso ttha eb, in uyo eoy'uv a. Aihcedev rteytp puord ytso,ml i'm all gworth orf oepsalrn fo hte 'oeuvy ouy. Vnee wdoul so dieliticsa be eohp emoyran i urodp fi tno oyu 'yeoru oto,.
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Vrye evou'y htkni seponr sgortn mcbeeo i a. Ttha outba one so ash otn y'uero yuo, i aawlsy ebts tbu ot asye eilf fo hktin teh tiygrn si uyo ngthis eenb.
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Ltt,eer eslosn ilwe)h of epho a imteonrcpa (i llacre i ktanh taht kgatin -afsreecl rfo yuo het oons eth uoy rlena nad. Sefhr aduderrng ouy not oyu ixptloe rty to dna oecgel,l myan too leepop rea etl enyoj evian wehn a. Reatf itesm iwll na( oyu hwti rcsehhi uyro eosrpn mtanoitrp laos [] trgda)uae teem uoy.
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By rpka yuo hte achs obrfee in a,yw yna ehva 2021 obctiin.

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