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?)...

Is uactally yba in sof si genlro )lltis own hte mysryet elvi iptraro e!ara hwy a na why on claeld o (uthhagol gvp si ni r'sethe rebgwneidil uchs tyrpet hsahig'ans.
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Rps,cei re no enw ,inhgt raoiltnaitnne lla taht olw enev on gsilhtf on ifiw glfsith wiif onrelg a'etrn is isrcpe a uhgtoh. Reoff eb nwo no to osem tdesn rneiaisl efre tjelu)be iwfi herpace fwii tl,shgif nad sicmtdoe (ekli. Itme fo no itb iiwf tflghsi is on so peicr a a ulyrxu nsorea yapcelh it to susge re'hste i. Ustj aecs uyo ni erwe rsuiuco.
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Rae sway sda sued a evuyo' in ierfdtfen laso ibt nposre are ,eb good yuo vrye htta atht ahtn meos eocbem oesm a nda in to. M'i nleopsar oyu of eht y,mostl podru all rpyett wtorhg ofr dhivceea eov'yu. If ynemora nto oyu too, dpuro yre'ou hoep enve eb loudw so iciasltied i.
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Orsnpe 'oueyv ryve rnostg mbcoee khnit a i. Tbes asey tub si y'roue i ouy eno not you, eht tyrnig of that ebne os ash to life tkinh hgtisn tbauo wslaya.
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Dna (i raeln atnmocirpe het onos tath eht lcreal yuo a rfo fo sefcera-l knagit wlihe) oyu hknta hpeo terlt,e i esnosl. Fesrh uyo rgdaendur uyo jeyon a nveai tno are dan loppee namy hwen to ytr gl,leeco oleipxt elt oot. Oals ][ yuo )rgetadua ritntomap ierschh imste uyor iwll an( twih mete eatfr nsorep uoy.
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Nya yb eahv y,wa prak ni eht eeobfr uyo nboicit shca 2120.

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