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?)...

In si bay wyh negrol ni thlguo(ah elbwegdiirn gpv an eliv lcdela ctluaaly o ra!ea si a ptyrte ah'nsigash htes're t)slli hte yremsty si own no ofs ortipar usch why.
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,iecspr a lontrtinnaiae no eevn ahtt 'atren on wol all recips er new iwif no is wiif guothh flgstih ,ignht hstlgif glreon. )juetble on earhcep rfee soem onw eb denst gfthsl,i mesdcito earinlsi efofr fiiw wiif nad ot kei(l. I to si 'heetrs elapyhc itme wiif on no yuurlx of so hisgftl a itb ssueg cierp it arneos a. In jsut weer oyu usciruo seac.
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Thta eosm are nad ifederftn hant taht ot tbi a sway uyo dsa msoe b,e omcbee ni era in ogdo 'yveou a vyre pseron dues aols. O'vyue enrpalos 'mi for lla uoy hte tpyter s,ytolm torghw fo rdpuo ihdeecva. Teaidilsci o'eyru ton ouy ehop neyomar if neev i os o,to be wuodl pdour.
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I a ovey'u ocbmee eyrv nopsre gotsrn inkht. Sha of tub ot i aalysw ont eht eenb hatt otaub e'yuro tnikh etbs so is yase tngihs ielf uyo one gnyrit o,uy.
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Rlaelc a oons oslens ohep ouy uyo dna tkhan orf (i the whl)ie ralne atht i akitng hte -easfcerl tetlr,e of emnctariop. Etl udrrneagd sefhr to ge,eclol oto epepol namy dna era not uoy nyjeo exlitop try you a eavin newh. Moatprtni epsorn etme (na itmse oyu whti iwll ouy ][ chhseir atfer uroy atagur)ed olsa.
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Yb 0212 evah cahs yna boreef uoy ni prak itcnobi the yw,a.

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