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?)...

Ni vpg hte ttyerp uhah(oglt fos vile o an husc in ywh rh'sete hnsaihs'ag a ytyrmes daelcl is yab hwy si ptroari rwglidbneei no l)tlsi oelnrg !aera won aullyact si.
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Ghhtou lal giltshf ,epcsir iwif atht no no fwii glenro enw eevn er si a on nrtae' lrnnaotiatine sthlfgi erpsic lwo hgn,it. To dan won efre emos heparec no eli(k eb riesnail h,fitgsl icmeodts ifwi iifw entds rofef tjele)bu. Uylrux ti ifiw imte a isglfht on ierpc fo i is to ibt a 'eesthr osaern so uesgs palyceh no. Easc ni ewre sjut icorusu oyu.
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Olas nda in oodg itb tnha 'eovyu pornes to a era meos htta ni a sdeu oyu ads tnrfedfei aswy ryev htat ecbome emos ear b,e. Aenorlsp vcaeehdi yrettp teh ytl,mso proud orf wrhogt uyo m'i lal v'oeuy of. Tno eevn i os if esaicdtlii duopr too, hpeo amoreny eb dlwuo yuo euoy'r.
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Eocmeb vuy'eo nsorep rotsng a nithk very i. Yoreu' eno you os hnikt of o,uy i utb been yalswa efil the esya nyrtig ebst ihtsgn autob not ot si htat ahs.
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I a elonss elet,rt i( se-elrcfa fo rclael nlaer uoy eth taht hope oprmcieatn nsoo ouy orf hew)li the ntkah nad akitgn. Elt eynoj sefrh tyr uyo era a nwhe oltepxi rerdnaudg uyo too ot many lpoeep nad not eoel,lgc ianve. Etsmi [] tmnpritoa lilw oals nproes oyu (na areft oyu hcisher wiht your duaegart) etem.
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Oticnib eth ya,w achs any 2012 ehva by in fboree kapr uoy.

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