hooray for my cousin

wow... my cousin sîan héder made a film called mother last year, that i saw, a very good short film, and not only has it gotten first place in a film festival in florida, and gotten into the cannes film festival, and gotten into the la times as a news item (as well as the boston globe), but now her film has come in #3 at the cannes film festival! kick ass! right now i'm visiting her parents, my aunt and uncle, who are famous artists in cambridge, massachusetts; they just told me about it. and her sister thyra, another cousin of mine, is graduating brown university tomorrow. so things seem kind of hectic for my aunt and uncle and those cousins, i guess. i was playing with my aunt and uncle's pet turtle, alfie, who is a female turtle about 12 years old, i think. i took alfie out of her aquarium and let her walk around inside, and also outside in the grass, but i always supervised to make sure she didn't run away. luckily turtles are slow so it was not much of a risk. now the turtle seems very tired from all the exercise from running around outside; apparently they hardly ever take it out of the aquarium. i am not a big turtle expert but i feel bad for alfie because i may have exhausted the poor beast and made her tired. i was at harvard yard earlier today and it was quite nice there, although the performance artists that live in the streets and are begging for money are kind of annoying but also interesting. like this one girl was all covered in silver paint and pretending to be a statue, and had a jar out to collect tips. and there was this family with a sign out saying they were homeless, and they had a dog and a cat sitting there with them, and the sign said they also need food for their pets. right now i'm using an apple macintosh ibook notebook that used to belong to my cousin thyra but she got a newer better mac and gave this to her parents... it is kind of hard to use these mac computers for someone like me who is not used to it, but i installed mozilla firefox with a bunch of extensions, so at least i have a decent web browser to post this blog entry from. i hope my aunt and uncle and whoever uses this computer try out firefox because it's really nice. the computer also has an old version of safari and internet explorer for the mac, but since it has os x 1.2, it is kind of out of date. at least it can run the latest version of firefox though; that's a mercy. my aunt and uncle are real big on cooking great food, we had this big salmon thing the first night, and last night we had jamaican jerk chicken and these wonderful sausages. cambridge is a nice place, it is too bad i was rejected by both colleges here, but luckily cornell still took me. anyway, buh-bye.