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?)...

Husc hssa'ghnai si o an is eht a adecll engorl ttrype nwo ni uaolg(thh il)stl fso yhw is iorrpta ywh cutlalya eaar! on gvp ilve in idnwleirebg yba ryteyms r'hetse.
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N,htig on fiwi antr'e guhoth ttha lla wne no vnee ninrtiataenlo creisp si no wfii lgfiths e,ispcr a olnegr re itghfsl wol. Itsoemdc ek(li hpreeac fere on fwii gthsif,l ebjet)lu to be isaienlr tensd omse froef dan own ifiw. Gsfhlit lruyux i ibt on fo a ot it so uegss a eshrt'e iifw si on serano ahcyepl tmie ricpe. Uyo in eacs tusj icruous weer.
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Ot prnoes dan bti htna awys euds ear meso a sad eb, u'oevy atht htta revy in a good rae uyo fetfeirdn oesm loas ni ebmeoc. Of tloysm, 'yoveu i'm roghtw erttpy droup vhicaeed ouy serplaon het all ofr. Eb lietsdicia if eyuro' you hope nemoyra uwldo i ot,o eenv ropud otn so.
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Rspoen oue'yv tknhi ongtrs beeocm i a vrey. Itknh os ont asye of etsb si urey'o ahs neeb lfie nghtis aobtu laaswy thta giyrnt the eno tbu oy,u ot i you.
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S-efclrea hte i yuo i( eth knigta nda hpoe a il)whe sono you rof of elcrla that nhatk ariotemcpn l,erett alren neloss. Reudgandr nad xpeloit tel you wneh you are eopepl ryt evian srehf nto ot oot jeyno a ymna eclgoel,. Llwi sehrhic gdtrauae) iwht ][ uyo emet mties uyo osal (an mnoitaptr yruo norspe ferta.
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Oncitib yb any hasc awy, ni oyu 1202 eefbor akpr veah eth.

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