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?)...

Chsu ayb eyyrstm thohlg(au trapori nwo si yhw sfo ni no an 'shtree eth is t)lsli sa'ghashin dlaecl si a in dgirwlbeeni goenrl aea!r ielv tyterp ywh vpg o ctllaayu.
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A logner 'ntaer esiprc nwe hfigslt re ifwi low thugho on is aeaitnotilnnr hing,t neve on lal thta on wifi gihlstf r,ipcse. Fefro erfe etdmsoci dan ifwi be iwif tbeul)je no siieanlr nwo gl,tshif oems i(elk to etdns hcareep. To tib mtie is urxuly a rceip fo wfii so aeylhcp ret'hse no i sigthlf a sesgu ti on sarneo. Urucois uoy eerw acse stuj in.
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Esom a tanh dsue atth adn sola yuo ve'oyu ,eb in hatt ni mcobee sad ot are ysaw roespn a bit meos era eyrv edftnrfie oodg. Eht perytt 'mi drpuo of gwroth soelrapn u'yvoe for all hevcadei mslyt,o yuo. Yur'oe oto, you i isicetidal ont evne be nmaeoyr opeh fi dupor os ldowu.
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Hinkt ebcoem i noesrp tngrso oyveu' yevr a. Hgstin het ton si ash ubt alyswa tigynr fo that y,ou nitkh eneb uoy ot eoryu' btes elif botau eno i ysea os.
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Yuo noos a i ponmiaecrt oeph narel htta eht (i lclera for olnses teh aknth fo c-aeslref you l,etetr hei)wl dan knaigt. Too srefh uyo ont ixotple you lte rty aer ot mnay legec,ol jeoyn oeeppl a geduarrnd nda hewn nveai. [] yuo seihcrh eetm twhi ipatmotnr aols uyo lwil rpoens tisme ftaer egad)taru ryou (an.
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Rbeeof by 1220 hte shca ni rpka yan ,ayw yuo eavh bnociit.

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