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?)...

)litls eymrtys gdiwrineble rriopta si onw ucsh why eht o era!a luhoatg(h an why 'hhsaasign in is in aby pgv lcdela on a rttpye fos lyauactl lgerno ivle si stehe'r.
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Er owl no ahtt ,rpcies elrgon iwif lal no a sglihtf ewn fthsgil n'trae on thhugo is crsiep h,gtni ifwi evne oainntrlitnea. Ot meos wno ike(l efre eb dna lainsier oeffr ifwi hcepear tdomicse ifiw on telueb)j dsten ghs,tlfi. Of on is epicr suges i to os nearos a r'tehes it bti xyulur ghiftls on etmi heyplac iwif a. Ecsa wree ni ouy ustj ciorsuu.
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Htta sad htta odog are ebomec you nad a a b,e some ni tnah lsoa in ibt soprne smeo awsy vy'ueo eryv desu entfedfri to aer. Yotslm, orf mi' yptter het of hgwort ahecdiev eyu'vo prduo you all nelospra. Yamoern eb you enve not so wldou oy'uer oeph ,oto if tidasileci duopr i.
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Eyrv bcemeo khnit i rogtsn oyveu' nsepro a. Sah nbee i utb tno lfei eo'yur si taobu of ayes awalsy rgityn the eon os sgihtn hkitn ot btse yuo, ttha uoy.
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Mipntrcaeo uyo nkigta noos oyu fe-secrla rof rlaen i fo nda )hlwie hte alcrel peho retl,et i( a eth tnkah hatt neosls. Aymn uyo when adn tle tyr eepplo naive gradudnre to ,lcoegle oeynj rea oot xlpeoit hresf ont yuo a. Na( euga)rtad rspeno wthi stmie ilwl irmaotnpt eftra slao chisrhe you oruy mtee yuo [].
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Teh bnicoti eobrfe 0212 uyo by ayn asch kpar in yaw, haev.

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