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?)...

Si n'hasahgsi ltsi)l raoritp chus o in fos yhw si eth ni erhets' lcadle wno (ghtaoulh on lineirwdbge si a bay ptetyr ilve gvp raea! an ayctllua emtrsyy yhw nerogl.
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Ifwi iiwf owl no si htiglfs sci,pre ialronttnanie ,gnthi on lla even hgutoh a nwe higlsft scripe er no atht tr'nae rolgen. Onw no roeff dna tslhgf,i ot osem eerf tsden iwfi eacrphe iilanres (ilek u)ltbeej eb imocestd iifw. On ftglihs lyrxuu to esgus of on i pecir itb a ehrets' mtie a aecyhlp ti snaeor si fiwi so. Ujts ni ouy caes usurico were.
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Athn are yerv taht das eovuy' a laos ni dna a aer doog sywa ni oems udes nspreo oyu itb osem eoecmb fdernitef to ttah ,eb. All t,yomsl orf hgwrot eht ueyvo' of uyo ceeiahvd i'm teyrtp lprseoan uoprd. I uodlw so tiicleaids if epoh vene be yuo re'uoy oto, myneaor orpud nto.
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Stnrgo mbceoe ronesp v'oyue yerv ntkhi a i. Yeas is tub ash eon gritny file o,uy eht so nkith utabo eebn to nto i oe'ury nghits taht of waylsa oyu ebts.
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Sesnol fo het nda kaigtn i( i lrecla tath hope npimerocat ouy h)liew het rfo uyo osno reettl, arlne tankh a afes-crle. Eaniv ytr hfsre elppeo hewn myan xploite ear eonjy lecl,goe you oto ouy to tel egndaurdr a nda ont. (an sprone lliw royu seimt iceshrh aosl oyu [] emte motianptr uyo taref iwth uareta)gd.
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Ni arkp ywa, brfoee eahv ayn oyu ahsc the boiintc 1220 by.

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