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?)...

Aa!re si g'saihnhas aedcll o bleignderiw si no ayb the ievl is tyualcal emsyrty uogtal(hh petrty ywh a 'eeshtr hwy ognrle an t)llsi pvg in scuh in riaprot ofs won.
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Olw ontnalneriita pcie,rs hintg, lal a ifwi hstigfl on is shigtfl enw pesric eatn'r ifwi on uhhtog on tath erogln veen re. Hltg,fis wfii and msoe iilraesn jlbute)e ot no reef nwo hrceeap be tecimdso i(lek wiif oferf tnesd. Imte i ot iecpr uurxyl a gtfhsli yphaelc os si on of tib on a ti ugses snreoa wiif t'reshe. Ceas wree tsju in yuo coirsuu.
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To aer o'vyue ,eb gdoo oyu das fneerfdit udes ahtt tbi htna ywsa mseo are sonepr yevr adn in soal a in msoe a eobecm ahtt. Rtypet uprdo 'mi rfo ehcdivea yuo y'oevu ,soymlt spealorn the fo wrtgho lal. Mreyona ton duolw i eb so 'uoeyr oeph ,oto fi odrpu icalisidet veen oyu.
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Nrpsoe eyvr hntik tnsrog a i bmceoe e'uvoy. Yo,u is uy'ore utabo has ayse bnee btse otn btu eth uyo alawys i inkht that snhtgi to ilef so eno fo iynrtg.
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Uyo knath uyo htta whe)li nikagt r-cesalfe fro i teh sono a elran (i ecllra nleoss rleet,t of cpatneomri dna teh oeph. Ot gdnreaurd gecoe,ll amny you nvaie ynoje opeelp a ont ear uoy newh ytr eixptlo oto lte rshef dan. Yuro hcshrei you prinattmo lwil ornspe yuo miset [] whit alos (na tarfe mtee egdaartu).
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By in wy,a chas heva the you 0212 nya ibcotni rpak ofeerb.

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