This is China

We have a saying here "T.I.C" meaning "This is China." It's used as a general all purpose explanation for something that doesn't make sense or when something quickly changes.
for example:
"I'm not quite sure what this food is..."
"Hmm, looks like chicken. I think I even see a beak."
"Yeah, but it tastes like beef..."
"Ah well, TIC"

or

"Beida needs to use all but one of your classrooms for the entire weekend for testing, starting tomorrow. Sorry for not telling you sooner. Hope this doesn't cause any inconvenience."
"No, not at all. I'm sure we can fit 280 students into one classroom the size of a broom closet and make emergency lesson plans in time. After all, TIC."

So this weekend I had my own TIC moment. Amber and I worked pretty hard on setting up our classroom for the new session and were really looking forward to it. Then we found that around 30-40 students that registered, never showed up. So one class had to be eliminated. All the other classes are new facilitators who vitally need the experience, so it came down to my class. So in the space of about ten minutes, I went from preparing an introductory power point for our students to going back to work in the salt mines of Danny's book. Ah well, TIC.