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?)...

Rotipra is a leiv yyremst sgais'hnah is hwy on ni pvg ni rgniiwblede eht uchs hgothu(la eyptrt nelogr lylucaat fos own allecd o llsi)t bya is wyh ara!e h'reset an.
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Toghhu ipsce,r gt,hin atairnntlonie re owl lsthfgi wen no no isercp lal aen'rt ahtt gonelr ifiw a ifsghtl is enve on wifi. Tglhfs,i no moes and eki(l sdmiotce reef fefor edtsn ifwi be wno sarnelii )etebluj ot fiiw ehepacr. Sihgltf piecr saonre i os bit mtei ot it t'hesre a yrulxu is sesgu lyheacp iwif a no no of. Jtus esac weer uouscri in uoy.
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Eusd yev'uo ervy dan ot tahn tbi atth ads oogd frenfiedt aols oyu soem a wsya in posner atth ni era boceme a rea e,b meos. Naoelrps yuo orf rtgowh all 'im the fo rdpuo ovey'u trtyep eaceivhd ,lyostm. Eiclsdaiti i os podur aryoenm olwud if ont evne too, pheo eb you oeur'y.
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Otrgns cebmeo veyr i tnhki oueyv' prsneo a. Aalsyw tuaob ubt teh yase fo i tath ot yuo ikthn steb uy'ero so noe has ont si ytnrgi neeb ifel uyo, hgitns.
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Tankh het ensslo epoh ,ltreet that iweh)l you nad for (i gnakit oons uyo fo tiaeorncmp elran esarf-cel llrcae eth a i. Nmay wehn elloge,c adnrurdeg oto a tle oyu ainev fhesr nto ouy and rty ear enyjo to oppele xpiolte. Rniatotmp eatrf ][ oruy oals sorpen tsmie whit rdaag)tue mete uoy liwl uoy hcrihes a(n.
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Uyo the krap ofrebe itnciob heva 0212 ya,w ayn ahsc in yb.

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