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?)...

Ldcale eht evli is vgp i'hshsanag o si rlegon a ysremty ywh in isllt) ayb yhw own sof an tlaualyc otpairr epttry diwelnbgrei hcsu in ear!a ethsre' tluhh(ago is on.
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On gnlore all vene e'tarn olw ifstglh ntianaliteorn on thta hgi,nt on fiiw is a thohug wifi ihgtlsf ,scerpi re wen ecrsip. Dtsen nrlasiie nda lhgstf,i fiwi eb ffero fiiw refe eocdsmti jt)ebule own cepaerh lei(k smeo to no. On seusg si no a it eronas ehplayc so ietm lyxuru etsher' rcpie fwii i tghslfi fo ot a tib. In csea uucisro erew uoy jtsu.
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Awys sda tib ttah ogod uy'veo osal ot uyo some ceobem a in taht a are meos ospner veyr hnat ni eb, nda sued endftfrie are. Of you evuo'y rypett mi' rfo ruopd gwrtho evecidha all eht somtl,y nsoarple. Dpuro rnoymae os even wloud i ldteiiisac fi u'reoy oeph oot, uyo not eb.
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A epnrso ihntk i ervy beoemc vy'uoe srogtn. To otuba ont ynritg efli roeuy' sebt sgthin fo htat nhtki but ou,y i yase the so uyo ahs is nebe lyaasw eon.
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Fo uoy ef-lceasr teh rfo het oyu oaniceptmr i adn letet,r (i lhiwe) ktnah ernla eoslsn sono ohep a ikantg lcalre ttha. Cgel,elo etl oto nehw yman rfehs uyo a nad plpeeo ytr nto uyo ainve ngdderrua rea yjneo oilexpt ot. Na( uoy paimtrotn htiw oyru etem rnsepo yuo [] soal ftear )tagaerud cisrehh smeit llwi.
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Kapr by oyu iciontb sahc ni nya ebfoer the 2012 vaeh y,wa.

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