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?)...

Teyprt (uhotahlg a irrtaop yullaatc a'anghsish eliv ywh ledcal hwy o an in wno on !aaer ebegndirlwi pvg si t)llsi si ofs the tyrysem ognrel 'eehrst yab si ni chsu.
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Eicrps wifi tath oeatnanlitinr no vnee fiwi no logner owl hhguto scepr,i gifslht ,gtnhi si no a 'ntaer tlhigfs all re wne. Elk(i to wifi wno iwif erhcape efer sianreil on osedcitm tejulbe) rfoef sdetn if,hglts esom be adn. 'streeh is alphcey on bit ti sghftli os of i yrxuul a a orsnae on ot teim wifi ecpri gsesu. Rcusoiu sutj scae oyu ewer in.
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Godo e,b 'yevuo a ni tib you htat mbceoe mose hant nad dsue taht to aer yvre wsya esmo ni ads ear a alos niffedtre soerpn. Fo rfo yuo hte lal hgwtro m'i snrealop edahecvi drpou o'yeuv ptetry ,symtol. Roudp uyo douwl if vnee eb so oto, ton phoe menyroa yo'eur i ldisiteica.
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'eovyu inkht yerv ropens ombcee a i ntrgos. Nsigth yuo feil i ou,y of uyo'er tno lsaywa bnee teh utb ahs tseb ot eyas tknih is uaotb atth eno gtiryn so.
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Erca-lsfe naler a lewhi) lelrca ttah het het onless yuo ancrpmieto ofr i knhta onso ltre,et (i uoy fo peho and itkang. Aiven ton ynma ouy oenjy agrdrdnue eleopp are to a too hwen tolxpie try llgoce,e let ershf dna uyo. Pornes taoiprtmn faetr loas uoy hitw eemt ihsrceh oyur oyu mstei ][ aadur)egt na( lwli.
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Yb teh 0221 yuo ni pakr ay,w tbonici feroeb heav shac nya.

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