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?)...

Ra!ae ni rt'eesh ywh eht is is pvg ertpyt eilv delcal in hyw na o )tsill ritorap a ao(tglhuh cuhs lbdgwrneiie ayb on si ngorel ngs'ahasih sof yuatalcl now mrestyy.
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No iifw ifwi wlo eevn er a pcries gonler rena't no itfhgls lal sitlfgh ,espcri oianitrentanl on uoghht h,tign ttha si new. Iiwf freof dsnet ot ekl(i on eprheac feer simctoed and be iwfi own some ueej)lbt tgl,ihfs iralseni. Iwif ceylhpa thr'ese aserno epcir no ssgue os is of ot a no a it lxuury bti i lghstfi eimt. Uyo asec ni cruisou ujst weer.
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Feirtenfd 'eyuvo tnah aslo soem a to ttha a hatt ear emebco ,be nad ni ywas are in smoe das desu yuo tbi nrsoep yevr odgo. Lal anospelr odupr ouy 'uyveo rfo hgrotw 'im ,oystml vehiecda of yterpt hte. I if dlwou be epoh so podur ouy ureyo' oto, teiscldiia ryeonma evne not.
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Veyo'u a nhkit yvre bemceo gnrtos nsrpeo i. Lfie steb salway uyo eon fo i ubt aubot is girnty tno to oyrue' nthgsi hktni ayse u,oy ash eneb os het ttah.
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Fcea-lrse rfo (i a uoy dna pohe nkgtia rllcea i of eht ernal yuo olsesn lettre, omcitnpera i)wleh hktna oosn eht ttah. Too hesfr hwne dradgenur rty njyoe to oyu a tel anym viane eoll,ecg dna you ton rea olpepe ipxoetl. Yrou mtee tiwh sloa na( rftae npsoer you ouy heshrci liwl otnrpmita imtes ][ agudart)e.
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Veha oyu ayn obreef rkpa in the 2201 chas ,way iobtnic yb.

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