answer the &*#$ phone!

* yesterday i was sipping some tea in the teacher's room when the phone started ringing. there were six men in the room, and one woman. the woman was busy vacuuming, and did not hear the phone. it rang, and rang, and rang (although most of the men had phones right beside them). they just sat looking at each other and then at the woman. when she finally heard the ring through the drone of the vacuum, she threw it down, TORE it across the room, and picked up the phone. because of course men do not answer the phone, cook, or make tea in this country.*
on a different note, there's an international film festival coming up in niigata city. it's showing a random mixture of films, including canada's 'les invasions barbares', 'the united states of leland' (american), eruo pudding (spanish), the flying classroom (german), song of the stork (vietnamese), ratcatcher (scottish), spring, summer, fall, winter...and spring (german), the return (russian), my life as mcmug (hong kong), and several other chinese and japanese films i can't read the title of because they're in kanji. i know one of the guys who's helping out organizing it so i'm going to be volunteering, selling tickets etc. should be neat.