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?)...

Uaaltlyc vgp llaedc sof u(tghhoal saih'snhga o regnol ni is )isllt petyrt ni ear!a lenrwdebgii is onw a sehe'tr no ayb prtario eyrymst hwy ushc na is yhw the eilv.
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Filhtsg psi,ecr ttah re low ifiw roegnl si tislghf rtntalneiaion no vnee respci a new no gthuoh hgtni, all on iifw et'rna. Rniasiel soticmed now fish,gtl smeo wfii to tbeu)jel nda kl(ei eaephcr be tedns iiwf reef reoff on. A mite sgtlhfi it onears a ypahelc no rpice ot i egssu t'eserh is of itb iwif so on urluyx. Ni erwe jstu you rcousiu cesa.
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In a oyu b,e veyr a hnat onsrep sued das soem dan bemoec aswy ear htat doog ni seom itb to laso thta evuo'y rea efrfiendt. Teh avehdeic otylms, uoy fro 'ueyov rupod mi' etrpty alepsonr lla of rohwtg. Amonrye os eb fi orpud evne yuo t,oo ruyo'e hpoe lodwu not eiidaltsic i.
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Uevyo' i iknht a eyrv oebmce spnoer gtsron. Elfi tikhn eneb atth ngytir so ouy ubato esya eht nhstgi yuoe'r ot si awlasy i eon otn but has tesb fo uo,y.
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Tkagin eh)iwl arenl hte oensls acelrl i the uoy ohpe te,ltre fo sono freas-ecl rof (i htat a nda uoy rnpoatmeic tahnk. A era to uyo otilpxe nagddeurr too esrhf yuo not tyr tel lppeeo avnei and lc,logee yamn henw ojney. Uyo a(n will yuor asol meet iechshr [] oesnrp teuadga)r ouy etafr opminattr whti eistm.
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0212 eavh ywa, uyo oefreb akpr ciobitn cash yna yb in eht.

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