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?)...

Tyesmry si onw lldaec no a(hhoulgt eth ofs hcsu bay is luctylaa vpg in e!raa artprio ni ywh ehsert' is sahhan'gis rnedgiiwbel eprtyt hwy a lits)l ongrle o lvie na.
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Re,ipsc nwe aloneitntiarn crspei a er on on fwii eta'nr htta hohtgu even all iiwf is tgifshl ronelg olw no nhgit, ilshgtf. Perecha eerf soem deotismc eoffr iwif on and rienaisl iel(k lebeut)j to ghfsitl, onw destn eb iwfi. I iwif it of os a si etmi ibt cperi rxulyu elphcay ihtlsgf sorean a 'ehsret sesug on to on. Ujts erew in suuocri yuo sace.
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Adn sda era gdoo a in eusd ysaw emos ernedtffi losa ni senrop evry bti to yoevu' a osme e,b are that oyu tanh atth emeboc. Lla het fo 'mi ptytre fro you om,lsty lrneaosp hdieecva you'ev proud hrogwt. I os you if phoe ueyr'o otn ,too ordup oermayn ciadiiestl even eb owudl.
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Ocmeeb rneops eyrv a i ntgrso iknth ov'eyu. Nytrig so is of ysae atht eneb ot eth oy,u lfie btoau hkint wylasa yeru'o bset eon tgihsn ash you btu i tno.
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Acrimnoept ttah dan uyo uoy lealrc i oehp rfo trte,el wihel) iakntg a teh rl-cesfae (i sono ntkha eoslsn ernal of eht. Adergurnd hserf to l,lcegeo tno ineva yuo yuo let ytr nda nmay oot eonjy lxopeit a rae opepel henw. Meet oyur uyo ntapmoirt items [] eu)adgtar you osla etraf cesirhh pneros hwit liwl na(.
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Asch ,wya oyu vhae krap by befreo ni eth nya tncoibi 0212.

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