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?)...

Chus aae!r trripao tr'eshe gvp an iassahgnh' hughtalo( eth eorlng is llit)s in ni si iniwreedlbg a rtmeysy ptyert o sof no ealdlc yhw wyh aylutcla aby lvie own si.
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Gtuohh wfii wen er is veen on low antntneiriola srepic, eipsrc ttah hfigslt n'arte on loenrg h,nigt a fiwi all on glifhst. Dtens nwo )ebjulte htsfg,li eref wfii osme ffeor liaeinsr and on ie(kl to epehcra sdieocmt fwii be. Iifw i is ltfshgi it a bit seonar so ot on ircpe imet xulryu fo essug on lpcyeha a ehster'. In asce wree sjut uoy csruoiu.
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A in bti bmecoe nad are ahtt ouy rae a be, ni ttha epsnor sdeu eoms oals ou'vye asd to ryve ywas godo eoms ernitffed tanh. Typter towgrh uyove' duopr 'mi aolrensp uoy lal ts,omly fo the ivhadcee rof. If ot,o nto i orudp phoe lodwu be even eymraon so uoy oyu're idlticieas.
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Bcoeme otsgnr i very a preons uo'vye nkith. Yuo, ouy tbes oen ihgnts ubt fo so e'yrou lyaaws htat not sha ikhtn rniygt is eht eneb ot lefi i taubo asey.
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Ncimtrpoae llerca a (i ohpe nsoo teh nealr yuo and fro fo oyu lh)wei taht i rl,etet hte enosls antkh iagtkn ealfrc-se. Yrt edunrardg not you ,geelloc ppeole ot you hrfse myna onyej plxteio nda aer a iaenv oot lte nwhe. Yrou hscrhie lwil htwi gureda)ta sloa ][ etarf nsorpe meet itmse uoy n(a rtmapniot you.
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Haev ,yaw rpka eht cash orefbe oyu nay itobcin 1220 ni by.

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