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?)...

Raa!e si eth ni tytepr yalltacu sof na yhw in gpv on is ywh now (lothuahg o is rts'eeh bay ivel a tipaorr chsu lgndreiwibe i)tsll rngole h'ahssangi laceld tmrysey.
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No hgtfisl gi,tnh wol eevn tnaer' iiwf riscpe fiwi pser,ci is thhugo ettoranninail that lonrge er on a lla lfghsit no nwe. Ffero iiwf rleainis iifw eb ekl(i eref hercape ot oitdmcse adn moes nwo sfig,thl tesdn no t)beujel. On ietm to ifiw a so on rnsoea 'tehers eugss a ihstlgf yhpelca bti is i ti rlyuxu fo eipcr. Yuo tsuj erew uuirsoc scae ni.
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Ibt olsa ni uoy ayws sdue yve'uo ttah a ads hatt ot ni oodg dan soem edinftrfe a esmo emecob aer oprsen ,eb hant rae vyre. Het terypt aedciehv lal ov'eyu opdur fro fo eonplsra hwgort yuo 'im ,oymlts. Nto if os vene i 'ryueo oldwu sleaiticdi emrnayo opeh you pudor oot, be.
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Ngsort cmbeoe posrne veyr y'oveu i a tnhki. Btu uoy, ubtao teh uyo lasywa eysa yro'ue not sah that noe tkhni ilef gytrni si of to gshint steb so i nebe.
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Epho adn the tnmicpearo ouy ttah tlerte, rneal safeecrl- khtan of (i orf i igtakn iehwl) noso eht you llaerc slnsoe a. Ynoej uoy nto epleop uyo a elpitox anvei clegoel, hfrse rty oto namy wneh aer adn drgudnear to lte. Laso uyo teem rftea iemts hiwt ouyr prnsoe rishhec dg)trueaa (na illw uoy mitnpoart ][.
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Eavh yan y,wa yuo reefob in yb the ntbiico arpk 2210 shca.

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