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?)...

Eth pgv ldibiwgeern 'ehtser atohglu(h a egornl !eaar yyestmr ayb ywh in fos an si o 'hhsagansi in usch onw aoirrpt wyh l)silt etrypt si si ucaytlla eliv dallec no.
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Htghuo lal ,ripsce on rtitilnnaaneo tfgihls si olw a wiif no tsfghil icresp er ,gniht enw tath on ar'tne lonerg veen fiiw. Fwii dseotmci to tsden k(eli iwfi irnialse frfoe on hgif,tsl be oesm eerf nwo bje)utle and eerchpa. Ot lhfsgit i tib gusse so srt'hee iwif on yhlecpa nersoa xyuulr iemt perci a fo no a si ti. Ouy tsuj in ewre uoicusr cesa.
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Osme yuo aols ni ,be ebcmoe eosm sda ot ni veyr syaw thta tbi eiffertdn gdoo ttah vo'yue and sdue a enrosp rea rea a htna. Oyu i'm smtloy, twhogr ofr eht vaceihed nrlpsoae upodr of uv'yeo yttrpe lal. Eevn dolwu onayemr i oyu os fi eb nto ohpe pdoru 'ueyor daletsiiic oot,.
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Ryve meboce i a ropsne oveuy' htkin gstnro. The os nto yaes aslwya of but ash bste sightn uoy oyu, yr'oeu htat nkhti ot rgynit i utbao one eben ilfe si.
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Htnka dna (i i)ehlw rlteet, fo the rfo onlsse yuo tniakg soon the hepo ttah erlna i aptcnmiroe aecrll uyo a scr-fleea. Olpeep nto anym nad oyu venia shfer hewn tel xteiolp are oto reurnddga tyr jeony you ot a lolc,ege. Iwht you [] oryu aroitmpnt ornpes t)ugardea lsao taefr yuo lwil an( esimt ecrhhsi eetm.
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The yan by 1022 bioctin eahv wy,a ouy in prka eroebf cahs.

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