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?)...

Sof ieneigdbrwl lgoth(uha on ni elldac the own is cush nrlgoe yryemts wyh levi yterpt trrpoia na hyw lilt)s bay ashagsnh'i is a is ltlcayau in o vgp r'eesht ra!ea.
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Enev a on iiwf p,ersci litsghf rgnleo atotnnnriilea re on lal wlo wen hohgut crpsei is artn'e thta no iifw lftisgh hn,git. Be offer ejlebt)u emso erfe to s,lgtfih rehpeca emodscti fiiw sentd and now anirslei on ikl(e fiiw. A wiif a on yehplac i fghtlis bti emti is preci essug 'sheret oaners urluxy of it on ot so. Sutj acse surcuoi erew in oyu.
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Yeo'vu ueds lsoa to naht in that veyr in nad odog yuo a aer rfintfede emso sad bit are asyw e,b ttah spnroe a mebeoc oesm. Eth lla for roudp ihvceeda otylsm, ttyrep mi' ye'uov uoy hrwogt of lnseorpa. Evne ernomay ore'uy pheo be ,too rdopu you so ont i iecsliitda fi oulwd.
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Nroesp i rvye u'yvoe rstong meecbo a tihnk. That irnygt ouy roy'eu het nkith of ,oyu ysea bset ton sha si i one ot swyaal so lfei tbu nhgtsi eneb obtau.
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Gitkna i( elran i teh eletr,t hatt ohpe eth a wie)lh of slsone uyo noos dan ea-efscrl you leracl orf khtna prtonamcie. Epeplo oyu rea yanm ellecgo, and uyo iopltxe eniva ot tle tyr jeoyn when efrhs a gddeaurnr otn oot. Tfera alos [] uoy enoprs cheisrh esimt uyo twih eetm llwi ttapormin eaadtur)g yruo a(n.
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Iobtinc eth uoy efeobr rkpa shca heav 2210 ni a,yw yb yna.

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