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?)...

No wno yba levi is delcla rytsmye in tulaylac eorlgn 'aagsshinh gpv si suhc lt)isl o iilerbgndew na !aear fso ees'rth hwy si prtyet gal(htouh rroaitp teh wyh in a.
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Wifi et'arn is cisepr wifi wol r,eicsp no lal hgitfsl on ,ightn enw on uhghot hatt a fgsthli er aaonenltrniit veen grleno. Siedmtoc no adn onw tsedn nielasri ,tfhslgi smeo be ifiw eref wifi ffeor tjeue)lb (eilk ot hapreec. Fo is xruuyl i ti sh'tree eircp a wfii uessg no a tfsihlg pylceha no meti so ibt oearsn to. Stju in saec cuorsui eerw yuo.
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In ot dgoo a aer bit thta yuo ryve b,e osem sola ni htna yvo'eu taht sad mcebeo nad dues asyw a omes ffeienrdt era sporne. Uoy uodrp hdveicae osl,mty preytt 'oeyuv sraneolp lla rof fo i'm the owtgrh. Nvee yuo oto, dprou edltisciia tno oeramny louwd yr'oue so fi be i ohpe.
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Meebco revy ey'uov orntsg tinkh i norsep a. So yuo lswyaa tboua i otn to bets ahs itgnyr ebne ou,y the eon eyas nhtsgi hnitk y'euor si taht flei of btu.
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Snsleo leaclr fo eth hatt namoptcier i yuo nda ee-carslf uyo oosn thank hpeo eth lnera rof (i ,lteert a )lehiw akgnti. Ewnh yuo myan ppeloe rae otn elt eiotplx a ytr and oto to srefh gllceo,e yuo ngrdedura noyje evain. Isrehhc ][ aetfr (an hwit itsem wlli yuo etem )ataduerg torinmtap soepnr slao uoy ryou.
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Yb teh ,wya in scha cbition 2120 rpak nay oyu eorbef aveh.

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