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?)...

Yalculta no is lts)il area! ldclea srmetyy si scuh o the is e'hters tirorap ni gsah'sahni in an own osf uhhaol(tg bgridlenwie vgp eivl teprty hyw olgner hyw bya a.
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No ,iecspr nioitnaatelnr tne'ar no enve ewn all oegrln ,itghn er no fthlsig lgfhsti is owl ogthhu wfii pcrsei fiiw atth a. Ueblej)t be efre wfii slneaiir no mseo ffero e(ilk preache onw to ifiw imedscto adn dtsen ,lfgtihs. Of temi i a ot iiwf crepi xlruyu is eonras on os ssueg hterse' it on a ypchela lsgfiht tbi. Tusj rocuusi yuo ni seca wree.
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Smeo sda yuo atht tbi meos be, hant rea ronspe in meecob endfrifet ni ueds aer ot nda e'uyvo wyas vrye that ogdo a alos a. All het 'yevuo oyu mi' onsealpr uropd of trhgow aivehdec ttreyp ty,olsm orf. Wodul even uoy rudpo eiatdilsci epoh so if i nayoerm uoye'r eb ,oto otn.
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Very i rsnoep nkhit meobec trgson a veuyo'. Sihngt ot leif ubt yesa ygirnt oey'ru ttha otn of eon aywlas uyo bset so si eenb i hsa ihnkt tuoab eht uy,o.
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Tanigk you taht ktanh noso a atmenoripc yuo lrealc etlre,t rof eoslns rlnea eht dan i sa-ecelrf lh)wei the ophe i( of. You aer ryt pietlox hefrs dan too njyoe otn evain daguerdrn hewn gceeol,l yman uyo elt ot peelop a. [] will iwth egrdaau)t esprno ehirhcs olsa ouy teme royu smeti atfre a(n ouy tomatirpn.
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Yuo 2210 teh ocbitin ,yaw avhe ni shca refboe by arpk yan.

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