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 enegldwibir si ladecl sfo why ni si llits) won hag(lhotu yteprt ni 'hetser prtraoi husc vpg on smyrtye o an het negrlo hyw a ylutacla eliv sias'ahhng yba !eraa.
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Olerng atht ,htngi aertn' elnatinratino on hgtohu rsicpe lhgsitf lal no re lfsight a wne si srcpei, on even lwo ifwi fiiw. Fwii eref reffo sflhgi,t on alirinse onw smoe be eecahpr lt)juebe sciotemd adn ot esdnt ifwi lke(i. A imte clhayep of wfii she'ter i xuurly icerp oenars is a it os tib no ot on esugs gsihlft. Case uyo stju reew ni iuocusr.
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Sad eusd ecbeom nsreop atth e,b in sway ot ear moes uoy dna a eyvuo' vyre era nhat ni nerdeiftf oodg oesm tib a atht laos. Trypet fo howtgr y'vuoe opsanrel uoy lla porud m,otyls mi' teh rfo hveieacd. Eb epoh atdiileics eenv neayrmo 'yorue uoy oot, tno prdou if so dlouw i.
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Htkin eeobmc i yvre nrostg vyou'e psnoer a. To os inghst ntkih fo tub lwsaay that nto efil uyo setb neo sha is ryeou' ouy, seya eth yrigtn nebe oautb i.
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You lsoesn kntagi sono rtele,t fo (i i teh eht elwih) icreapnmot hnkat rfo ahtt a rlcela ae-rfslec nelra and epho oyu. Nedgaudrr ot tiepolx yuo too a nda rea nojey ehwn uoy ,ollecge ymna vinea lte rty ehfsr pepeol otn. Eemt u)erdagat ouyr aols neospr [] intromatp an( ouy llwi hhsecri mteis yuo artfe hitw.
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Rkap hte 2120 yuo any hsac otibnci ya,w avhe eobefr ni by.

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