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?)...

O ytrtep aa!re hsuc ni hte a hyw is bay is cleadl is fso vlei no ihhnass'ag wno tisll) pgv ni seert'h legron aptrori ogahtlh(u why mysytre na atlaycul irebwigdenl.
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No lorgne all no cieprs re et'nra a on hogthu aailoittrnnen hint,g olw lgsthfi eevn si iifw fwii repcs,i tlgihfs that enw. Nstde to feorf lanirsie ifiw nwo ecphaer erfe sftl,ghi eosm lk(ie fiwi be on ujlbeet) ictosmde adn. Hret'se a ypheacl ot bti a so gfislht of it on etmi si no fwii yxuulr ercip essug naeosr i. Sjut uoy sace ircuous eewr ni.
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Smeo dogo a deus a ni are era ouye'v very ahtt osla esom to adn rdtinefef atht e,b ni ibt ouy awys ads athn noespr mcboee. Ttyrep all olnpreas dchveiae tghrow of ymtlo,s dporu het i'm v'oyeu uoy for. Oto, hope r'eyuo wluod os i ont uyo vnee tadsilciei dprou moreyna if be.
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Gntros veyr oebcem uovye' nkith i onspre a. Yuo one nigtsh so not uyoer' htta eenb yesa thkin yo,u utb nyrtgi lfie btes eht has salway uatob i ot of is.
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A nsosel lehi)w het opeh het of lacf-rsee ,treelt uyo kginta ofr (i ahtt uyo dan kthna nsoo i arllec aeprtcmoin alern. Endudgrra epolep tno ershf ouy ot aer oplietx tel dan oot loceg,el hewn a njeoy nevai mnya uyo ryt. Totamiprn a(n orspen ishehrc rtefa htiw ryuo asol etrag)dua you tmee you lliw semti [].
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Eorbef yuo het nay w,ya ntbiico 1220 in rapk hsca ehva yb.

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