inspirational pi

there is an on-line journal that i have been reading since my final year of high school. i don’t know why i’m writing about it but i have to admit that it’s strange to have read the commentary on someone’s life for 4.5 years. how crazy is that? it has a soap opera kind of feel to it with much wittier comments and pics. this dude is an aspiring writer and from the following he has on-line these days i’m sure he could make a ton of dough from any possible publication. that might be downplaying his ability but at the end of the day it’ll pay the bills.

and on a similar note, i’ve been wanting to write to yann martel ever since i met him a couple of years back. he had just been nominated for the man booker prize for his ‘life of pi’ and he was a featured speaker at a conference i was at. i didn’t know anything about him at all. but he ended up being a panelists in one of the sessions and he absolutely blew me away with his conviction and passion, and of course his story of having traveled the world. speaking to him was an electrifying experience because he made me think a great deal about what i was doing and where i’m headed. after our conversations at the conference i read his book and resolved that i would write to him with something worthwhile to say. needless to say that i still haven’t done so yet… but now that m. night. shyamalan is planning to turn his best-selling book into a movie, this might be the opportunity that i’ve been waiting for.