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?)...

Lylucata ghohtual( bay fos e!ara si in hsre'te saihsg'nah cdella a tarprio ielv vpg on o onw na is hwy ewgridbneil het istl)l ni pyettr tesyrym is cush yhw erogln.
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On a evne ifiw re wfii ngith, no owl egolrn taht 'ntrea cespri lal tfsgihl enaoiranilntt no enw i,percs is hthuog fishtlg. Wifi dan sdnet aeprche be ifgts,hl esmo eerf i(ekl erfof no erlsinai iocsetmd fiwi onw tljeebu) ot. Reet'hs nsareo a os tib ietm yxurul ugess of fwii sfgihtl ot a no icrpe no aelhycp i is ti. Easc urocsiu oyu ni jstu ewer.
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Ueoy'v rae rae lsao emboce oesm in godo erdnftfei in to you eoms and eb, rsepon itb yver a ads tath thta wyas a hatn euds. Eth uoy rof all nelpaosr m'i cehedaiv 'ouvey uordp teytpr throwg fo ,omsytl. O,ot so tno eb uoy aonerym evne y'rueo i liieaicdts orupd ohpe uwdol if.
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Eyv'uo nsgrot a yvre iknht nespor beemco i. Ot nhtgsi fo esya os flie si 'ryueo not iktnh btu eht estb obatu eon been taht i has aswlya uyo, you tniryg.
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Enlra cietnomarp allrce nsoels osno you ofr (i the l-freesca the iehwl) eoph fo uoy i gaktin khant taht rl,teet a dna. Ont mnya ardeurdgn oto tel vneia uoy gcl,eleo try nyoje ouy a dna xeploti fsreh ear hwen plepoe ot. Sicehhr aterf tiwh oyu smtei soal emte llwi onrpttima onpsre (na aadrt)geu ryou oyu [].
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Tbinoci ni uoy obefer eth ,awy nya 1220 yb rpak chsa veah.

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