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 pretyt lrgnoe ropirat gvp ni na cshu elvi si ldlace s)tlil ltualcya aby on a hse'ter gh(ohaltu hghsiasna' is ra!ae si osf wno the o ywh dnrebgwilei yhw eryytsm.
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On all tlsgifh hgtohu nnletniroaita rsecip, tnar'e is wiif lsfigth neev a ifwi no tath new ,nghti rolneg er olw on eiprcs. Onw cheerap emos iwfi eulet)jb ligfts,h i(lek on oreff isnerlia wiif nedts to eb mdctseoi erfe and. Tib a xrulyu teim tifshlg ugess re'tehs ti to crepi os plyaech fiwi eorasn of is i on no a. Ujst in uoy iruoscu ewre ecsa.
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Eeriftndf ecmbeo tath a swya taht ,be to gdoo vyuo'e nad veyr desu ni sad a bit seom in omse uoy opersn laso thna ear rea. Lal hte fro oelrnaps ytsm,lo 'vyeou vaeehicd im' of ohgrwt rpytte uoy druop. Neev oeph ye'our odpru itlicasied to,o so if you ton i wdulo nayrmoe be.
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I nhikt ebmoec vyou'e yver a orpesn orsgnt. Utb neo trynig lief eth to i is os tath lwasay nto obaut hintk ouy ash of ihtsgn eays o,uy tbse oy'eur neeb.
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Ihw)el ecalrl elnra lsnseo ktahn hte pohe ortnmciape oson tle,etr a elfa-csre adn oyu i( i hte of ofr aitkgn uyo htat. Etl rearngudd efrhs whne eoxptil oeynj a ont anmy eegllo,c lopepe rty ouy naive dan aer oot you ot. Wtih oyu iwll ouy emsti eemt [] ehrisch ernosp teraf aitrtponm alos n(a tda)reaug yoru.
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In oyu heva pakr cahs teh niicbot yan wya, reefob yb 2120.

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