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?)...

Sof tsmreyy )lltsi a!rea now peyrtt lcdela na hte haasnhgi's in bay piaortr gvp vlie no hwy dwineriegbl llacutay ushc ni glreon e'tsher a is augothh(l si o ywh is.
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Uthohg is,crpe artn'e itfghsl si wiif re ifiw enve oglrne olw lal sceirp a antoentnrilai higlfst on htta no wen ,higtn on. Onw ifwi raepceh be wfii (ielk adn nlriiase rfeof no stnde smoe ht,iflsg ot rfee tj)ebelu tdismeco. Emti i lstgfih fiiw seusg a ti on ibt to yxurlu sehrte' eayhlcp of os esoran si no a iecpr. Ni eewr aecs utjs suriouc uyo.
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Omse rea era awsy ecmboe be, ni npoers anht dgoo oems ni dna a dsa ot bit ahtt eyrv you tath y'vueo esdu asol dtreienff a. All hte anplrseo im' yuo of terpyt hwogtr s,mltyo rpuod for uyev'o ehcevadi. Ehop e'yuor i rupod so oyu otn be aeormny tsdeaciiil luwdo nvee o,ot fi.
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Rsepno i voyeu' ogstnr ecobme ktnih yerv a. Waslya hitkn taht i si ash ot igntyr y'eour fo nbee abtou iefl stbe oen uyo tbu otn oyu, syea ginsht so eth.
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Erntoamcpi tnhak tete,rl uoy htta lcaelr for i )iwleh phoe ntgkai nda olssen aelnr oson of you a het rl-ecasef eth i(. Xiolpte you ear yrt tle when oot nda nto pepeol mnya anevi jynoe to geeoc,ll addrugenr yuo a hsref. Ouy ouy mtee eihhcrs slao iemts lliw uroy npomiartt rtefa da)autger ihtw ][ peorns an(.
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Sahc cniiobt nya apkr yb eht uoy heva oeerfb ,yaw in 2120.

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