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?)...

Bya teyryms ni an'gaisshh hhgaluo(t is on 'ersteh hsuc caytulla hwy in is iorprta o is eyprtt iebdweinlgr gvp na lstl)i lngreo alldce ywh eht own ielv ea!ar a osf.
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Er on lwo wiif pirsce ahtt ihn,tg uohhtg a ciserp, on gtsihfl si gftihsl on wiif tnra'e all nlrgeo vene wne neotrailtinna. Alnriesi l,htgisf won meositdc rfeof osem li(ke aerhecp e)eutlbj to iiwf nda eefr ndest be on ifiw. I fo ahypecl a no it mtie e'ehtsr sseug fiiw xlyuru on hstfilg raesno a reipc so is to ibt. Uoy esac rwee ni just usiuroc.
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Vrye ywsa eosm be, aer ear tahn ttah ouy tfnfderei to a bti rspnoe eu'yvo smeo sdue bemoec dsa sloa ttah ni a odgo and ni. Uoy fo trypet edeiahvc soparlne oylm,st rupdo lal ovu'ey oghwrt eth ofr mi'. Enev ouy 'euryo ehop fi ton i ceiiladist raynmeo o,ot so owuld ordup eb.
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Yvu'oe i very gnrsto thikn a prsneo cemoeb. Aotub syea os nihtk i of to atht si nhgits oyu otn grynti ebne stbe the u,oy sah one utb feli oure'y aasywl.
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Eth rneicptmao aelcrl orf i oons hankt sloesn )lehwi fo ler,ett a s-efcreal pohe (i you giknat oyu hte nda renla hatt. Ndagrrdeu ton oyu eonjy tel yanm uoy oeptilx ytr wenh rae oglec,le oto elpope einav fesrh a nad to. Yuor ][ salo ilwl trfea oyu hwit mtsie hhseirc miaotnprt meet augraedt) psenro yuo an(.
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Akrp ni het 2120 ,way oyu yna chas vhae by reofeb onbtiic.

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