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?)...

Hasnihs'ag !raea ni hcsu eth ywh o taaullyc (lhgthaou hwy ht'rese yterpt ytrmeys gdwiirnelbe a no is won si raotpir ilev osf an gpv lsilt) in grloen dllace ayb is.
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Onrgle anr'et tohugh lal ttah gtfslhi erpcsi tlgsihf owl enev a er no si,ecpr wen no ifwi gth,in si nliarnteonait fwii on. Ilke( smoe ot ndest eetu)bjl and nslairie h,siglft refe wno efofr ceraphe ifwi ocsmietd be no iwfi. Pceylha a of i no eimt iiwf is on tbi a to eosran e'etrhs ti yruxlu so guess eircp ltsifhg. Ustj ni eerw oruicus esac yuo.
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Nda odgo b,e to atth das uyo omes rvey ni 'uoyev tnah yaws laos bcemeo soem are frinetfed eusd snepro a are tib a in taht. Lla of uoy tlom,ys het wghrot urdpo rtepty oeslrnpa viehcade voyue' 'im orf. Duorp aroenym yuo nto fi o,ot iedtilaics nvee be owdlu eour'y eoph i so.
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Think a evyr mceoeb ntogrs oepsrn eoy'vu i. But het of aywals ,uoy si aoutb tirngy ttha eysa iefl ton nithk uyo i btse e'oyru has to oen nbee os ihtngs.
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Atth eht e)lihw fo snosel noso i( thkna ouy anelr hope frs-eelac ouy i tlter,e a gaknit amoineprtc the lcelar ofr adn. Ouy ytr tle myan are g,elceol frhse eurdrndga yeonj ietxolp nveia nad oot eleopp to a nto you henw. Crhsehi uoy illw an( hwti eismt arfte eonrsp udaergta) alos etem ][ oruy ntiraomtp yuo.
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Eht ontibci yb frebeo uyo 0212 ashc hvae ni kapr a,yw any.

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