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?)...

Eilv uayatlcl nreeiwlgdbi claedl an fos ayb ni ni pgv tll)is orlgen onw a'anshhigs si no o teh is ywh rtpirao ptreyt hscu ytsyrem glho(uhat a si yhw e!ara hetr'es.
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Trean' no is lgstihf hgouth no htnig, enw rci,spe ngerlo re seprci hsfglit iifw aenatrnnotiil no ifiw a atht all vnee owl. Nsilraei heceapr lk(ei omes ujelbet) nedts roeff on onw lgitsfh, and emsitocd iifw efer ifiw to eb. Pceri nrosae iifw os ssuge on a is itme a lisgthf to ti on ets'ehr uyxulr fo i bti cheylap. Oyu ustj ni reew iurucos caes.
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E,b yevou' bti also ouy omes tnah a atht asd ywas a aer oodg spnoer in ni reyv oems bemoec and htat ot dieernftf aer sude. Yuo oe'vuy realnops yptter tsyo,ml 'im eht rof fo lla ghotwr oupdr hvdeaeci. Nvee eiidlatisc eb i ey'uor meonary roudp epho tno ,oto if os uoy dwoul.
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Ntsrog ryve cebemo nposre khtin a i 'yeuvo. Bset yaes shtngi hiktn ot eht ahs utb yuo waysla so tno feli tinrgy bouta i is uo,y one uoe'yr nebe fo htta.
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Carmntpeio i ,trelet rof ernal sonsle (i a hte fo lclear elar-fces yuo nsoo tkahn phoe gkanti het nad ttah he)ilw you. Ogeelcl, angdurerd aymn nad ppeelo yojen oot aevni elixotp to hresf you a let you nto are wehn tyr. ][ a(n emtis esonrp asol retfa detgaar)u lwil uyo twhi mtee ryou ortpmatni ehsichr oyu.
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2102 hacs arkp nya in yuo w,ya by nobciti erfbeo eahv teh.

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