Many Changes Instantly

[robotech_master]

That's apparently the running gag expansion of "what MCI stands for." We've been shuffled from classroom to classroom, then had that schedule changed on us. Moved out of the classroom with the computers in it, we're now having to skip around in the book to cover lessons that don't require computer interface. We had been supposed to spend this afternoon "monitoring"—that is, listening over the shoulder of customer support reps to get a good idea of how to do things—but now it's looking like that might no happen after all until tomorrow, as apparently the room we're now in isn't needed for those things after all. Sheeeesh. (The funny thing is, as our instructor told us yesterday, that sometimes they're not entirely clear it's a joke...he once heard a phone rep get asked by a customer what MCI stood for and reply, "Many Changes Instantly.")

Class is going decently enough...a little noisy, a little raucas, a little sleepy as half the class seem to have body clocks on a downswing (and the way they can't ever seem to get the thermostat set right doesn't help things either). I have to say that having access to the Internet to my home Linux box on breaks is definitely helpful to my sanity. It's amazing how much you never realize how much you miss that until it's suddenly available again.

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[slog.livejournal.com]

34. Money Coming In. (Really! The lawyers who took on AT&T in an effort to break up its long-distance telephone monopoly thought that their new company would provide them with easy MCI.)
(http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~bw998/tri.html)

I find that amusing.

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is amusing...but it's also wrong. It's another running gag (I've heard it, too. As well as, "It used to stand for 'My Commission's Incorrect,' but they've gotten better about that."). MCI actually stands for Microwave Communication Incorporated. Or at least that's what they told me. :)