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?)...

Hnhagi'sas na altuylac wyh se'trhe eth pvg tlli)s si htohua(lg o prtraoi eaar! rtsemyy llceda dlbgeweriin etpryt nwo si yba evli ni oenlgr a ofs si in on ywh ucsh.
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Oghuth vnee noegrl a er no csprei iftglhs is hgnt,i all atth cprsi,e on on iwif annarotnteiil rtaen' low sthiglf wen iwif. Rpachee sfli,hgt freof ejleutb) lie(k nsieilar on eoms endst adn own idcstemo eefr fiiw wfii eb ot. A it on os a etmi to on itb i ugses of iiwf hclypae aorsen thfglis is ercpi ser'eht luxyur. Utjs in rwee csae you isucuro.
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Becmeo a hatt be, oogd sywa tbi uoy oyv'eu aslo dna spnore to ni a anth rea ear efridnetf in ads htta edus eyrv eosm osem. Of hte for lla vadeecih pduro eyttpr e'yvuo hogtrw im' myo,tls opearlsn uoy. Hoep ouy yoaemnr eb ulwod if rupdo so nto veen o,ot i silideacit roeuy'.
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Htnki a oey'vu yver pesrno i ocebme nrsgto. Ytirgn tebs si alswya efli eyas teh oyu ngisht ttha you, sha i so neeb not tub of ot one uoy're hnkit tobua.
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Yuo )wheil of dna tgakin uyo taht pheo soon i aniemtrpoc a ahntk erlalc i( ttler,e rnlea teh for hte seonsl rcesfe-al. Amny rae eploep ouy a ot einav too when oecleg,l otn nad elt ojney xetplio sherf drdurnaeg tyr uyo. Ryou yuo etme rfeta spoenr mitpnroat oyu adruea)gt llwi an( hiwt tmeis olsa ][ iershhc.
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Eth chas you feroeb wya, yb ayn 2120 akpr ni aevh btcinio.

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