my actress cousin

Today for lunch I met with my actress cousin, Kate. She seems to be doing well - in her second year at Ryerson taking whatever it is that actresses take at the University level (it still strikes me as strange that Ryerson is a University, even if it has been something like ten years since they got accreditation). When we met I was struck by her appearance, and told her that she'd "matured and no longer look like a teenager". Then I remembered that she was in fact a teenager.

I've never seen her act, but I know she has all of the peripheral stuff down pat - the upright way of walking, the clear diction (unlike my muddled S. Ontario accent) a certain world view.... It was good to see her. I only have two cousins (other than by marriage) and it really is inexcusable that I've only seen one of them in the past three years, and that I only see the one a 20 minute cycle trip from where I live once a year!