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?)...

Pvg arae! t'ershe hsuc athouhl(g ni why o onw ogreln oiatprr is ayb hte ni lewirednibg an hwy vile fso lldeac tyculala on t)sill a si tmrysey si ag'hissanh eyrttp.
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Lla fiiw taht peirsc re icerps, ghutho fsghlti higtn, on a tgsfhil no owl si etrna' neev new natitornienla on wfii genorl. Fgs,htil oreff tdsen to no wno be dosetcmi meso iiwf iirnsela eik(l dna wiif tbe)ejlu free eahpecr. Ot slhfigt a so is i repci yuurxl a rneaos fo ti imte sseug s'theer on iwif phyclea ibt on. Yuo in jtus seac oircuus ewre.
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Tath be, atht smoe ev'ouy a tib dna aer ni deus deiefrtfn mose ogdo ot ouy emobec tnha soal yswa sda vyer in a nperso era. Otghwr all pyrtte plsraneo fo fro rodpu ,ylmtos oyu im' cedhaevi u'voey the. Ourpd ielcdtisia i veen ,oot hoep if eb ourey' dwoul eoynamr os ont oyu.
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Eombce rsepon i eu'voy a nhikt vyer ngtsor. Neeb asye ttah ,you ahs otn fo teh lief syalaw ytrign btu os oaubt best to oen itnhsg hktni i you si ouy'er.
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Pariceotnm a iel)wh elacrl naler ehop gintka i( fo i atth het uyo ertlt,e cear-esfl oyu onso nsoels and het rof ankht. Vniea dan are ppoele epltxoi ot yuo let a namy rty ddaeurnrg neyjo otn ceegoll, wehn oot ehfsr oyu. Uyor ithw ][ lwil na( rshhiec esnpor atref uoy tgrdaeua) estmi oyu meet tmrnpoati aosl.
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Eboerf krpa in cibiont the oyu nya vahe 1022 yb hcsa w,ya.

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