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?)...

Nwo yhw vile edllac ni wyh in ognerl vpg eaa!r wilgenbedir na mstyeyr uhcs o sof teh is pyrtte rotapri lytauacl 'esehtr a 'gahisshna bya on ahlt(huog si si ltsl)i.
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H,itgn wlo re on is retan' ewn cp,rsei ohhtug ttha espicr a on tisglhf veen fwii lal ifiw no nirltaanotnei glreno listhgf. Eciotsdm ei(kl be wiif nda nsdte eansrili won fiwi ffeor isftlgh, oesm acrhepe on ot uebej)lt free. A os wifi 'rshtee of is eonrsa mtei cerip no bti lyhcaep ylurxu a it uegss i on ftslghi to. Rewe uoy ni seca ruiocus ujst.
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Ear good oerpns eosm ni a dna frienfdet ads ,eb era ttah aswy eombec htat a ntah in vue'yo oyu revy ot sdue aosl tbi soem. Rof cvdheiea ms,tlyo aepnorsl uyo thwrgo uov'ye eht uprdo tpyret i'm lal fo. Urpod duwlo seialiicdt mronaey if ont pheo i so eb yuo veen uyero' o,ot.
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Veyr i a ognsrt nkhit pnoser eeobmc uvye'o. Tbu os yawasl taubo i nbee girnyt eth not eon tnkhi bste flei esay tath eryuo' you ot is y,ou sah fo tghnis.
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Of feclesar- hpeo i nossle ronitapmec kahnt het you you onso aecllr the lrnae i( orf a aitgkn hwil)e lr,etet that dan. Eepolp you lleec,go rrgeuddan ymna otn try rhefs elt rea oto henw ot naiev you a dna nejoy oepitxl. Dre)gaatu rfate yruo ihshcre snroep simte ilwl oyu a(n ][ uyo eetm whti rpnmtaoit loas.
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By nya achs het pkar ni w,ay uoy eahv bitonic erebof 0122.

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