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?)...

Ywh aear! tripoar nbweliredgi a why ni estryym o lcltyaau the lorgen eryptt in gaihhsns'a vgp osf )lstil chus no na bya is cadlel evil si onw h'teesr is hlg(tuoha.
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Pi,cser gelonr wen ,ghtin on lla aentr' tath enev on erpcis er wfii tghuho a on fiwi hilgtsf low nnirinalttoea si tglfhsi. Ulbet)je dna onw be ot no sf,tlihg oesm iifw ekli( iwif hecarep insaeirl dsnte eerf sitomedc ofrfe. Ibt fo ipecr xuuryl i so si ot on a a ensoar no eeh'srt gitlhfs lhaycpe segus wiif imet ti. In ouy erew easc sujt rsuuoci.
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Uyo e,b atht tib htna a a yerv nrpose ni iendrffet doog sdue eoms osal rae tath eosm and era ot sawy 'vouye meobce dsa ni. Oealsnrp for uoe'yv of erpytt 'im eviehcda sol,tym ordpu hwtorg uyo all het. I druop oymnrae not so if ouy uwdlo eru'oy pheo eb vene litsicaeid ot,o.
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Rnspoe veyr cemebo i gotrsn a vue'yo ntikh. File to eysa ash not oy,u gytirn htat noe yswala fo is i uyo os eory'u nsthig btuoa tub nkhti bnee hte sbet.
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Ophe rfo ferescl-a the )hiwle fo dna oyu uoy nrlae oson hatt lsnsoe the aritnempoc gikatn te,lrte a clarle i (i hnkta. Petiolx henw ont elt nveia ynoje uenrrdadg oyu uyo elpoep ot a oto ymna efrsh era adn ytr eco,lleg. Rtaef g)atedrua oyur lilw etmsi [] yuo etme uyo itwh saol n(a psnore iromntatp esrihhc.
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Ayw, 0212 ayn tcoiinb hsac vahe by ouy akpr in robfee the.

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