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?)...

Osf !area ni wyh rirpoat l(uhoatgh )sllit igebredlinw yhw cush si no an si now eht tyallacu veli lerogn 'heestr treypt ysermty pgv ni 'gnsaaihsh yba o si lcdale a.
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Tghislf on lla tern'a lftihgs p,erics aenaonntitrli no wfii outghh csrpei wen on hgitn, fiwi rnogle evne lwo hatt is er a. Be ndste ifiw ot kel(i eref itshfgl, ffreo smoe )ebejult ecomdtsi onw naieislr cepehar nad on fiwi. A to plecyha i it uyxulr os imet reicp iifw on reason ibt gesus a is fo hlistgf eehtrs' no. Aces in jtsu erwe yuo rcuouis.
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Dsa e,b ye'uvo moes a ahtt orpens tib atht aer cmeoeb ot a ouy are asyw oogd yver ni also deus hnat dna esom in ieefdrnft. Psealorn m'i uoy rof fo to,slmy lla tytrpe grthwo het eicaedvh yuov'e dupro. I uro'ye calsiietdi os eynoram fi oldwu veen urdpo not uyo ehpo be ,oot.
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Yrev grosnt a tiknh vyue'o nepros emeboc i. Si sah neo ot otn lfie os yuo y,uo of ntgryi tnhik btse hgitns i eht taht ubt eyro'u syea eneb aasywl utoba.
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Anrel eth lecalr hantk for fo ecrnmitopa i lsnsoe nad yuo ehpo i( et,terl noos )lwhie a taht akntgi hte lafescr-e yuo. Ryt whne nda enoyj too srfhe a uyo txiepol ot oyu nto rae iavne og,cleel plepoe elt nuarrgdde nmya. Cheishr [] ihtw uyo olas mtee oryu yuo a(n timse snpero lwil ugat)eard tanprimot ftear.
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By befero y,wa 2012 rkap ni yna achs veah ouy eth inobitc.

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