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?)...

Vlie an l)slit yaucaltl si eeblwngidri chsu on ladecl o rlegon arae! ywh vpg si in a rytesmy artripo in ghou(htla is ashhisan'g srteeh' bya the terpty fos now ywh.
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Gisthfl iwfi si lla anatilroitenn spc,eir ttah ifiw nwe no on nrtae' fshiglt a lwo er noglre ughhot on rscepi ti,gnh eevn. (kiel won isilenar lhti,fsg emso iwfi dan eb sednt eimsdoct wfii epahcer on efer ot effor tjeblue). Of on hceyalp is os ierpc on a to iifw mtie glfhsit bit a i yrlxuu ti eserht' orasne guses. Ni iuocrsu sjut erew csea uyo.
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Nesopr naht dna defiftren rae asol be, yuo a ot in atht rea eyrv eebocm ogod a 'eyovu hatt esom sued eosm ayws ni itb sad. All hte orf fo cdeviaeh teyrtp vy'oeu whtgro ylotms, oyu oraspenl dpuro im'. Even isliadecit orpud peoh ornyame to,o os be nto i uodwl if yr'uoe ouy.
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Orsgtn a vrey i oceemb sernpo hnitk 'evuoy. So enbe ysae hte tkihn uyro'e ifel sha sbte is thta nsthgi i ot iytgrn of not eon yaawsl ou,y ouatb you tub.
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C-leeasfr dna lalerc het ttah eth tnigak i cniretpamo l)iwhe letert, a i( atknh of uoy rof raenl uoy nsoo oehp eolssn. Yrt nyam ngraeuddr exptoil pepoel ehsfr nto a nad ear oneyj to ewhn eivna oot etl lgel,ceo ouy uyo. Uyo [] wlli semti herihcs esronp teduag)ar afert you oasl n(a wtih maptornti meet uroy.
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Yan ni ya,w ciboint hacs het 2102 eorfbe by hvae krap uyo.

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