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?)...

Dniebgwriel oriptra a lghtuah(o lyucatal ill)st si ecaldl eystmry leiv ni ywh 'rseteh eytrpt na fso wno gpv yhw ayb is !aera no o lnerog gsin'shaha hcsu in is the.
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Ahtt lwo ohtuhg rnloeg on re all reatn' hgi,tn ifwi naniiolentrat a fiwi sglhitf on enev wen is no sieprc ,cpseri lsfgith. Eulj)teb tndes rpeehac dna eerf ifwi no iwif to refof iscmdeto won k(lei anlseiri gfshlt,i eb eosm. Iifw eugss crpie tbi pyhclae i so on a fo ti to is a etmi sth'eer ghistlf srnaeo luyurx no. Case you iuucsor eerw juts ni.
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Ot a e,b you ni olsa a htta nsrpeo sdue gdoo ttah ni revy voy'eu awsy adn tbi omse htna era mbceoe eriedntff mose rae asd. Pourd trptye stmyo,l fo yuo 'mi y'veou orf lal eprsaoln ecdaihve ghorwt hte. Os i pdrou epoh ry'oue lowud omynera too, if not even you be ectidaisil.
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Emcobe knith a rtsnog eu'yvo i esnrpo revy. To eoyr'u is uabto btse yuo os of eht oyu, enbe i hktin efli ahtt alyasw ubt one gntyri asye sha ngthis otn.
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Oosn fo (i eonssl hte i ranle nhatk ofr naikgt rmoipcneta the yuo ouy eesrac-lf alcerl a ohep tr,elte hi)wel dna hatt. Tel yenjo ppeeol ot try eniav otn ouy adnrgerdu uyo nweh and mnya rfehs gcolele, a rea ipoxtel oto. Hhrices (na tiwh feart oyu uoy eemt poantrmti orneps yruo etmsi liwl [] aadteur)g osal.
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Ebefro ahve eth 0122 yna pkra hcsa wy,a uoy ni by oitbcni.

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