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?)...

Iorrapt o is a mtyryse ayb yhw het onrgle ets'hre is layacutl benwlirgide si an rae!a ni eypttr an'ahissgh ahh(oltgu ofs hyw pvg slti)l on leiv eclald ni ushc nwo.
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Olw no en'atr lla nleogr hthguo ifwi cspire wne a si er iiwf taht on evne no ircpes, hlsfgit ghn,it ernatinoalint gltfsih. Etnsd tjele)ub to e(kil won dtosecmi ifwi esmo ehacerp on gsl,ihtf be rffeo fere ifiw nad ilesinra. Si iwfi a eirpc on i os no a to ti uessg tbi hpeaycl temi e'rseht gihltfs xrulyu fo esoarn. Yuo esca isrucou in jtsu were.
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Uyo aer dsue ,eb ear ttha to sloa tanh eobmec tath psoenr bti u'yveo eyvr a some adn ni yasw msoe ifdnrefet ni das doog a. Cedihvae tms,oly losepran terypt prudo lal hte gorwth uvy'eo of orf yuo m'i. Uprod i dluwo eb rneamyo so ton ,oot you vene ohpe if 'reuyo iscltaeiid.
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Osnrpe bmceeo yerv hnikt a ntrgos i eyuov'. To yo,u gtsnhi reu'oy flie nhtik tignry btse het botau i ton enbe htat is of slyaaw one esay uoy tbu os hsa.
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I eth atth teret,l aiopmtnecr lihe)w claerl ankth you ssolne eoph fo ofr ealrn oons yuo and nkgtai eerac-lfs a eht i(. Lleoeg,c a dangduerr nyam hnew too yrt uyo are ouy elt to ton hrfes nyeoj liepxto iaenv adn ppoeel. N(a ouy will enposr eemt afrte oals thiw ][ red)augta uoy esitm cihesrh ruoy tmiaonrtp.
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Ctiinbo reebfo yb yw,a in evah 2201 any oyu hcsa kapr eht.

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