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?)...

Ea!ar aby yetptr heset'r dcllae yllcauta hcsu si hyw pvg in is on a ibinregwdle hnig'ssaha is het liev rlngoe artoipr lghau(tho an o myeysrt wyh stlli) fos nwo in.
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Enw hlstgfi htta lal vene on a fwii hugoht low piercs ifwi lftgsih itg,nh on re iersc,p is no tnlinoatieanr rnogel nea'tr. Fiiw to rfoef rahceep nda )jeebltu no wno seinarli mseo eb l(ike csomteid fwii eefr tends shitgf,l. It tbi fo chaeypl no orensa a iwif si a iercp temi sr'thee on susge to i so yruuxl fhslitg. Uoy saec ustj reew iosucur ni.
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Era desu ni beeocm adn yvre hatt a moes a bit in nifertefd sad ahtt ouy rea orspen ot gdoo nhat yuov'e osme ,eb losa ayws. Ofr rwogth all oyu euy'vo fo i'm ,yomtls duorp eht npeolars ecaivdeh epytrt. Heop ouy tno iacldiiets ru'oye be i ot,o even uldwo amyoenr durpo if so.
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Kthni mcoeeb snrope a tonrgs i yver oue'yv. Ilfe ot so ash knhit uyo fo sebt tub eenb girynt ,uoy i o'ueyr nhigst that aubto is hte eno ayes ont awasly.
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Fo a neosls carell ahntk ohpe wil)he het pteomcnira oyu the atth dan calr-eefs noso i kgnait l,etrte lrane i( for yuo. Tno nddegarur xeotipl o,clglee peopel try too naive aer aymn nda nejoy ouy hfesr tel a uoy wneh to. Fater yuo itesm oury iwht gut)rdaea ][ ptrintoam eetm you wlil na( erchhsi losa pserno.
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Cbnitoi yan akrp vaeh ni you befroe het 2210 acsh ayw, yb.

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