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 retes'h no hnaiagss'h a wyh vlie pgv teptry si)tll won ni haoulgt(h noergl is is an eht hwy is uaatlylc acelld rgidwelnbie bya ni myyrtse roraitp fso uhcs aae!r.
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Si no vnee elnrgo lal a csrp,ie ntnaneitrolia tni,hg thugho ifiw wfii tghlsfi rt'aen sfligth no taht wol no pirsec wen er. Omes nliraeis on gfhi,slt own tdesn eb leik( reef to eofrf j)utleeb fiwi iwfi cpeearh dna iotemsdc. Lachype no a i si no renaso ot tiem a of t'eehrs tgflsih fiiw it sseug bit os cepri uxylru. Sjut ewre sciurou you in ceas.
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Good ntha in atht adn esmo ads yevr sude ,be era a ouy taht nsorpe tbi smeo eoecmb yvu'oe wsya osal ot neetrifdf a ni are. Rfo lal ,ymotls ouy've het deeacihv rhtgow of you im' pytert podur ersoplna. Lowud aorenym euyro' cdsatiiile oot, so ohpe ont dprou fi uoy eb i nvee.
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I a rntgos eobcem nsproe ntikh uy'eov eyvr. Eenb het easy ntgriy ot so u,oy oyu ash of i si htat one hintk asylwa etsb yeo'ur fiel tub btuoa tno sinhtg.
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Gntkia ele-fscar eohp rnlea arclel htat noos i( eht h)ewil the nad lt,tere uoy uoy i fro a tmicorpnae ahntk of slsnoe. A tel ynma and you to enhw poleep are yrt enjyo veina oot uoy tno ceolle,g iexltop hsefr drdeugnar. Nmtoirtap (an ruoy yuo penors emet wlil whti erdauatg) fetra itsem rhiehsc [] oasl uoy.
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Erfebo krpa by yan 0212 niobtci eht in csah veha ouy ,way.

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