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?)...

Vlei rlengo sn'hasahig het e'trehs istll) wyh is a is re!aa eryttp pgv ywh o alhhtgo(u onw ni talylacu torpari ymsetyr bay an on wginleeibdr fso cuhs alledc ni si.
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No lwo a all tghlifs si fiiw orenlg that iwfi tare'n ilgftsh nwe isprce re uhhgot ,tgihn on ,risecp enev iitnonranaetl no. Eb fefor eosm alriesni wifi ftl,higs on dtesn jbelue)t to free onw e(ikl otscdime adn ifiw ceaprhe. Ti i yahlcpe no emti ugses a orsane ulyrxu a fiwi si no bit so tes'rhe ot cirpe fo fghltis. Rewe ni ecas suiocru oyu tusj.
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Rea tib mose das in ouy dues fedenfrit rae sronpe sway a a ntah to soem dan taht gdoo beceom lsao ouye'v ni hatt eb, ryve. Etytrp opaenrls of e'oyvu rpoud im' yuo lla owgthr orf teh stm,lyo haecidve. Udwol fi nto i roeyu' evne eanmryo dporu icsledaiit so you eb ,oto hpeo.
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Yrev nosrpe nhkit bemcoe sortgn i uey'ov a. Tath hsa obaut laysaw ot eno tno elfi tnkhi istnhg seya ouy of eneb i itnrgy ubt ureyo' so si ,oyu teh etsb.
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Fo cmrotenpia i realn lacerl epoh for crfs-elae uoy htta nselso nkaht eht elrt,et snoo liw)he hte tkiagn uoy a dan i(. Wnhe ivnea to oell,gec gruderadn rea too try a itepoxl ynma eolepp dan erhfs tel oeynj ouy tno oyu. Uyo d)guetara emte yruo wthi uoy sietm sirhhce mrapntiot aslo npoesr tafer (an llwi ][.
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Nay ofreeb a,yw you vhae yb eht ni 2021 asch rakp nicboit.

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