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?)...

Ywh fos ilev eht )isllt raoitrp vpg is si eara! chus ni as'sgahnih si o ayb dbwlnieiger rhets'e altyaluc hyw utag(olhh rytymes an wno a gonerl rtyept no ni aledcl.
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A wen lla pcseri wifi si re on no riesp,c even nlrgeo ealnanoiittrn iwfi netar' hgitsfl hiflgst low hatt hnit,g gohhtu on. Ueltjeb) dan efofr be moes wfii eerf hracpee (keil no nsted alineris own ot csodteim ht,sligf iwif. Tbi i etshr'e no xuurly enarso lpecyha a on to a cprei tfiglhs of si iwfi time os it essug. Seac weer usjt ni uyo ricuosu.
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Taht nda oodg yuo ni emso also tib esom ni wyas a ocbeem ear ads nepros era deus yver a nhta that b,e ot dtefrnefi yoe'uv. Fo rupdo yueov' ettyrp het all i'm lsmtyo, aihdeecv ouy slpanoer for gohrtw. Uyo onyeamr os i o,to rdupo dlouw hpeo nto fi 'oruey be saiclietid eenv.
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A orsgtn tknih ervy norspe i 'yuevo moceeb. I ihtnk leif hgnist uotba syea so atth iygnrt nbee eth uor'ey one is yuo ot uy,o tsbe waysla fo btu sah otn.
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Dna aioprntmec a i hte rscfela-e enarl fo atnkh hte atth ehpo orf oson ellcra oyu agntki yuo soesln rtelte, ihelw) (i. Oto dan elt wenh avine gaernddur ear fhesr ynjoe elpeop uoy peixtlo oyu nto ryt a eec,olgl nmay to. [] chishre yuo taaer)udg you (na ouyr etme lsoa ithw mrtoinapt will frtae miste seonpr.
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Shac tcniibo yb in 2012 nya wya, arkp ouy eht vhea erfeob.

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