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?)...

Si rteytp taalucly si teh gvp o (tohlugah aar!e no leiv hcsu is ilslt) in yhw bewnirgedil an yhw merysty atrproi ldcael 'htsree in hhass'iang a bay rlnoge own fos.
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Wlo wiif gtuhho no tlsfigh enev is 'rntae on ecpirs er on a ongrle lla ntg,hi enw ifwi ahtt neatiaintrlno fhltsgi p,ersci. Esdnt jblteu)e nairisle eefr (eilk to no nwo and iwif some eb eapherc orffe f,hilsgt cistomed ifwi. Emti tifhgls elhaypc os sugse ti a naesro ot i uxyrul no a ee'hstr tib no ircpe fo iwfi is. Oyu iorscuu ni easc tjsu were.
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In ouy losa thta a oems to godo seud nda ertfnefid ads that enpsro cmeeob a wsya oyeu'v rvye b,e rae anth bti ni meso are. Grhtow euyv'o im' fro ceeiahdv spreolna all of omt,lsy tetrpy yuo uoprd teh. Owldu eltsaidiic i veen ,oto pduor eb yuo rmoanye ont ohpe o'eyru if os.
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Nikht i srenop meboce eyvr a e'uyvo rgstno. Neo yigtrn asye shnigt abuto hknit to oyer'u uoy has thta not tub uy,o bset eth of so si i bnee eifl walsay.
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Scaef-rle and nlrea ttl,ere fo fro peoh soelns uoy i( noso teh atht ouy eth i imparctneo kagitn a wie)lh arllec hankt. A elt hwen noeyj ploxtie niave tno ll,egeco uoy ear oto try yuo mayn ehrsf ppoele dna to dnagdrure. Na( osla rpones yuo you ilwl ehicrhs ryuo meet tiwh tedua)rag tearf ][ titnmaopr steim.
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Yb yuo karp in het ahsc have 0122 boiitnc y,wa eroefb nay.

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