Time Travelled — almost 8 years

A letter from August 4th, 2014

Aug 04, 2014 Aug 04, 2022

Epilogue

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?)...

Shcu poaitrr na peyttr in ystemry yab llcyuaat a ievl no sh'hnaiasg ywh dilneigbrwe why cladel in esreht' (ohuhatlg sof si lsi)tl !eaar o the own si pvg si nrleog.
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Fiwi lgenro esircp lla teainranltino ilsfhgt low ,ecispr ttah on guohht vene re a 'reatn no wne si no thlfisg tg,inh iifw. Hsilg,ft won dan eepahrc isnlraie reef snedt fiiw ifiw on il(ek )jlteebu smeo to isdctmoe be rfoef. It fo teim i st'erhe eugss on is urxylu hlpecay to tgfhils no iwif erason a so ecrip a bti. Yuo weer in sujt ousucir saec.
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Omse also ibt a oyu bemceo to ryev a teierfdnf in aer awys e,b nhta 'oeyvu neoprs gdoo eoms nad deus ni rea sda atht atht. Gthrow mtoys,l tyeprt yuo vediceah im' uoye'v elasnrop all ofr hte of oupdr. I eb anymero otn dprou veen wluod os oyeu'r eclidtiisa uoy fi hepo ,oot.
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A revy 'uyoev i nerpso ihntk eocbem gstron. Ot lwaysa so oy,u i btuao otn eht hkitn one tbes hatt tighsn gnyitr but ayse uyoer' leif has you si bnee of.
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Oons i you creall atnhk heop eth of selson naopmeirct rof gnktia a the cser-lfae w)heli htta nad ouy t,tlree ealrn i(. Tle ievna tno nyma oitpelx reshf ndrgruaed you ryt e,ocglle you jeyno ear oot dna a plepeo to nweh. Deargat)u rftae oryu meet aols a(n [] yuo cerhish tsemi ropens mitnpotra iwth uoy llwi.
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Eth you in nya 0122 roefeb ciotibn shac by evah arpk w,ay.

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