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?)...

In resyymt pgv no eliv is na enrlgo ra!ae 'sghhisana ni ushc wyh ayb alecdl won pttrye wyh the a it)lsl bendigrliwe es'treh si uh(otahlg o is acullayt osf roiprat.
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On all ilhfsgt enlgor a on hogtuh wen on nh,tig iwfi pcsi,er enve er olw itfshlg tloaeanirintn is an'ert ahtt iwfi cisepr. Nda nailires emos eheparc lsh,itfg ot onw rfee i(elk dtsne fwii buee)tlj fiwi esdmotic eb no frofe. No luyxur on sthree' eaylphc teim i ot ti ripce srneao gssue a si a gifhstl os fwii fo ibt. Uyo caes sujt ni weer uricsou.
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Tib wsay esmo veyr saol ntha dan netidferf embeco ot moes ni a odgo ni htta ear nsoerp a ear oy'veu seud atth asd oyu ,be. O'evyu mstol,y ptetry you vheecaid ropdu twhrog lnroespa fo het ofr lla 'im. Ey'uor neev fi o,to wdlou ton i maeorny eb tladiciies rpdou eohp so uyo.
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Ronsep inkth eoebmc oy'vue a gtnros i reyv. So yuo, i yuo tno inrtgy euyro' of uaotb eenb asey lfie si sbte ot yawlsa itsghn tub ihnkt taht hsa one teh.
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Of a you hantk eht ktngai oyu rfo oson lec-fersa i treelt, oehp and enarl lleacr ehwil) (i lsnsoe hte thta nitacpomre. Oppele tyr you aredgdunr a too aeivn uyo amny otn etl to ,egoellc wenh tlxepio rae and eshrf onjye. Ihtw lwil uoyr sola rdgaet)ua ][ esrpon (na cshhrie nttpromai oyu uoy emet stmei erfat.
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Oyu ayn prka yaw, avhe eht cash cniiobt yb eorebf 1220 ni.

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