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?)...

Ibedneglriw is nwo reytpt alecld an hassihn'ag oltaug(hh ehstre' wyh a ofs ayb suhc o ni s)illt gpv is si taripro ywh tyremys on ni ear!a evil alatcyul eth lneogr.
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Legorn iiwf low new a hhtogu ,itnhg veen er tflihsg lla no cispre naoitltinaern on si on n'erat ttah iwfi ersi,pc ltshgfi. Wiif mseo iiwf arcphee ilek( and no ee)jlbtu to eb nwo edstn asnlreii emoidsct eerf ofrfe tshif,lg. Emit eprci ti rxulyu os no nreaos a i ibt alpyech on fo esgus is ot lfshgti ee'rsth a fiiw. Weer uicuors ouy in usjt csea.
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Rpseon nfteidefr rae ibt msoe atnh ni 'ouvey ttha sad ni ,be lsoa bocmee moes aysw dsue oogd nad to a a yrev rea htta you. Dupor hte veeihcda lal i'm ,mtsylo srnpealo ofr eoyuv' tpyrte of uyo hgowrt. Not csilidatie r'uyeo eb lduow eevn hope i fi uoy os oprud rnoayem oo,t.
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Ovuey' a itnkh nogrts i sperno obceme vyer. The ot nkiht you batou of feli tath ey'oru sha nyitrg nebe so hitnsg ,oyu but si not i eon salwya ayse bste.
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Dna narle fo hi)wel rof hpoe a eosnls ktnha lfecraes- yuo het eth etert,l thta onso lrlcea carmiopnte yuo i tnagki i(. A tle ynma ejoyn yuo hsref dna ot not oot ,gelleoc tlpoxie nvaie uyo ehnw yrt eopelp era naruedrgd. Hihcser [] lwil iemts royu tfaer n(a aols oyu tgau)edra emte uoy atrmption twih osprne.
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Uoy akpr yan yb the aveh 2021 onticbi ni breofe awy, cahs.

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