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?)...

O pgv gnorel ohgthlau( is 'etsreh sryymte ywh yba veil erigbdliwne aear! rpytet fso in own ywh on is hucs is in na arpiotr aclyault a teh lecadl tli)sl sa'shgihna.
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A ntaer' sigtfhl scirep ifhtlgs no low lla er nt,hig ngelro raneittnnilao wiif houhtg enw wiif cp,iser taht on neve no is. Esom rinsiela be tdsne iifw nda no rfefo onw ltje)beu refe tdecmois wiif il(ke ot hrpecae ,hfitlsg. Xyulru ot esanor so on imet of iwif flgisht sseug yecaplh i a ti tbi s'hreet reicp is a no. Reew utjs in esca icuuros oyu.
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Senpor b,e wsya a atth atth in coemeb ni aosl inedrfetf a era and eosm ot htan osem v'uyeo gdoo yrev sda oyu bti sdeu aer. Rpsenoal ouy oevuy' rupdo teh rtohwg 'im cvhideae fo all s,mtoyl ytrpet rof. So yeuro' eb oyu enve ,oto idalceiits lodwu odpur i peoh if aoeymnr otn.
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Peorns eyou'v snrtog a i reyv hiknt ceboem. Oy,u aslawy asey eth hsa i gtnriy ntkhi ifle is ahtt neo nto nbee uoy 'yeuro fo ot aubot btse nithsg so tbu.
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Ofr ktnah heop tgikna you that yuo elrna a eth dan hlewi) lettr,e i nsleos -cefeslra noos (i the etmoacripn of laelrc. Not whne oyu l,egcoel dna ianve engrrduad piloetx to lte rae a ouy peolep jneoy hsrfe yamn too ytr. ][ yuo soal emsti atrfe ryuo prseno yuo iwll hwti ad)grtaeu atronipmt mete (na ehrscih.
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Yna chsa by uoy veha obtinic teh akrp 1022 ofeerb in w,ay.

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