After writing about 200 stories in 2009, my number one favorite involved a number - 3.1415... .
South Florida Community College celebrated the annual Pi day on March 14 (3.14).
I introduced the story by writing, "celebrating an irrational number can be construed as being a bit irrational, but holding a pi day event seems to be a logical way to have fun."
After pi essays and a pi poem, it was time for the main pi event - the reciting pi challenge.
Patricia Kelley, of Lake Placid, was the first of six contestants.
She correctly named 115 digits of pi, which no one bested.
Kelley received a calculator, a gift certificate for a Village Inn pie and a pi plate, which is a plate with "pi" in the middle and about 30 digits of pie around the rim.
Kelley had put her idle time driving to good use by reciting pi.
"Every time I drive and stop at a red light, I would recite what I have memorized," she said.
You could spend an infinite amount of time having fun with pi and trying to memorize it and writing about it, but as the SFCC pi celebration concluded with a bunch of pizzas, I spend much more time throughout the year thinking about pizza pies.
Now the last time I had pizza was well over a week ago, so by my calculations, any time soon will be the right time for a pizza pie.
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