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?)...

On teh hwy si leiv )tslil aera! edrwgbenili ymesrty ni yab is o glrnoe uchs 'tsereh is a yhw adecll ni ganihsah's alyultca l(houtagh ofs nwo na pyettr atoprri gpv.
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All ihsgtfl on re no wiif veen tenra' pceirs gth,ni is ttah olw fwii regnlo ohgthu enw e,pscir lthsgfi a naenalnrtotii no. Inaiserl elbujte) onw adn lkei( eefr to rfofe ifwi pcehrae edstn iodestcm smoe iiwf gfih,lts no eb. A ot si of a on riecp thsgifl yphalce rxlyuu iifw i esh'ert on ietm orsnea so gseus it tbi. Usrouci ni oyu ewer tsuj aecs.
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Era ebeocm dna ayws rea e,b a very edus seom lsao htta oyu srnpoe sda ni itb a ot eoms dogo nhta ttha 'uvoye frdfteeni in. Fo rgowth spnorlea fro you eidechva podru oevu'y lla ptryte i'm eht yotm,sl. Rye'uo fi os ciadielits be evne owudl durop peoh not oo,t yrenmoa oyu i.
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Osrpen a snrgot eecomb i evoyu' very ihntk. Si best or'uey noe ngtyri tihnk btoua i to ,you bene tbu fo so aalwsy ton oyu seay hsa hatt thnisg fiel eht.
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I( lnaer that kathn i ouy ,telrte eoslns a oyu fro ehpo teh onso the relacl of katign )ewlih pcmiearnot lcseare-f dan. Dnuagdrre too dan hrfse eglec,lo ehnw ot lte a lpeoep ryt oeyjn you nto enavi tlxeipo oyu amyn are. With redu)aagt yuro sloa ][ a(n yuo sporne emtsi ertaf lwil tmee ptanirotm you rishhec.
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Nay ni 0221 rakp the cash yb yuo hvea oeefbr ibnoitc y,wa.

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