songs meme, mentoring at work, worker's comp

[derien]

Meme from rowantree - hit Pop Culture Madness, choose the year you graduated high school on the left, take the list of songs provided and bold the ones you love, strike the ones you hated.  Leave the ones you don't remember or had no particular feeling toward. 

And the lesson here is, I didn't hear much music and didn't have a lot of emotion towards a lot of the songs I did hear.  Or the lesson is that once again my memory is quite bad.  I'm sure if I heard a few bars from some of these songs I would remember them.


1. We Built This City - Jefferson Starship
2. Smooth Operator - Sade
3. The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
4. Sea Of Love - Honeydrippers
5. Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
6. Walking On Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
7. Into The Groove - Madonna
8. You Are My Lady - Freddie Jackson
9. Crazy For You - Madonna
10. The Bird - The Time
11. Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
12. Every Time You Go Away - Paul Young
13. Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen
14. I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner
15. Careless Whisper - Wham!
16. Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
17. Material Girl - Madonna
18. Roxanne, Roxanne - UTFO
19. All She Wants To Do Is Dance - Don Henley
20. Say You, Say Me - Lionel Richie
21. You're The Inspiration - Chicago
22. Through The Fire - Chaka Khan
23. Heaven - Bryan Adams
24. Freeway Of Love - Aretha Franklin
25. Jungle Love - The Time
26. All I Need - Jack Wagner
27. Born In The U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
28. Small Town - John Cougar Melloncamp
29. Meeting In The Ladies Room - Klymaxx
30. Take On Me - A-Ha
31. Dancing In The Street - Mick Jagger & David Bowie
32. The Old Man Down the Road - John Fogerty
33. Just A Gigolo - David Lee Roth (a guilty pleasure - everyone else I knew hated David Lee Roth, but this song cracks me up.)
34. New Attitude - Patti LaBelle
35. Private Dancer - Tina Turner
36. Centerfield - John Fogerty
37. Lovin' Every Minute Of It - Loverboy
38. People Get Ready - Jeff Beck & Rod Stewart
39. Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
40. Rockin' At Midnight - The Honeydrippers
41. You Give Good Love - Whitney Houston
42. Dress You Up - Madonna
43. Cool It Now - New Edition
44. In My House - Mary Jane Girls
45. California Girls - David Lee Roth
46. Treat Her Like A Lady - Temptations
47. And We Danced - Hooters
48. Basketball - Kurtis Blow (I didn't even know there was an actual Kurtis Blow!!  His name is used in a They Might Be Giants song.)
49. Solid - Ashford and Simpson
50. Invincible - Pat Benatar
51. Wake Up (Next To You) - Graham Parker and the Shot
52. Your Love Is King - Sade 53. I Would Die 4 U - Prince
54. And She Was - Talking Heads
55. Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
56. Everyday - James Taylor
57. Money For Nothing - Dire Straites
58. Jesse - Julian Lennon
59. You Spin Me - Dead Or Alive
60. All You Zombies - Hooters
61. (Don't You) Forget About Me - Simple Minds
62. Some Like It Hot - Power Station
63. The Heat Is On - Glenn Frey
64. The Oak Tree - Morris Day
65. Fresh - Kool and the Gang
66. Dancing In The Key Of Life - Steve Arrington
67. Can't Fight This Feeling - REO Speedwagon
68. Can You Feel The Beat - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam With Full Force
69. Suddenly - Billy Ocean
70. Kayleigh - Marillion (I never heard this until I got together with Eor.  Now I hate intensely.  [sorry, Eor.])
71. Voices Carry - 'til Tuesday
72. Lover Come Back To Me - Dead Or Alive
73.Oo-Ee-Diddley-Bop! - Peter Wolf
74. One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head (or Robey)
75. We Are The World - USA for Africa



I've been spending a good chunk of each of the last two days at work helping one of the guys (M.S.) who's been with us a while get ready for recertification.  He's been on light duty for a long while and hasn't had to handwand or pat people down. I guess they told him he'd better get himself off light duty or they were going to get rid of him, so, he's pretty certain that if he fails handwanding and patdowns he's canned.  Understandably, he was nervous - he would halt and stall on advisements and such, and the actual practical sessions would have him just pouring with sweat. 

Keeping M.S. on task is... phew.  He's like a whole herd of cats by himself.  It probably didn't help that he had guzzled half an energy drink before we started, and used a little more to wash down a couple (or perhaps several) Xanax.  (Xanax?  Is that right?  An anti-anxiety med.)  I suggested he not drink caffeine before the recert test, today.  He said he has other drugs to calm him down.  I strongly suggested that no drugs AT ALL might be a good idea.  However, I think by the end of the night he wasn't sweating as much, he was almost burned out on being nervous, and he said if he could have taken the test right then he probably would pass. 

He is grateful for my help, though, and has offered that if he passes I should go out for a celebratory drink with him and CeeJay tonight.  :) 

I really should have put in for the trainer position, I guess.  I suppose I just needed to gain a little more confidence.  But Spinner already has it.  Thought they might hire another, so I guess I should put in. 

I just called the OWCP again and they tell me that my case has been accepted, they just haven't sent out the acceptance letter, yet!  I'm tempted to jump and scream and shout in relief, but I don't feel I can until I have that letter in my hot little hand.  I may have sounded a little snarky on poor "Wendy" just trying to explain what's been going on with the case.  I told her that I've repeatedly called and asked for information, asked what was missing, sent the requested info over and over, and been told that he would call me, but he hasn't done so, and if he didn't call me tomorrow I was going to call a lawyer.  And she said, "Could you hold a second?  There's something here in the file I have to check on."  Which means she was asking if she should tell me that my case had been accepted. 

Actually seeing the worker's comp letter will be such a relief.  Especially considering I've now made an appointment to get my wisdom teeth out.  December 22nd, just before Christmas.  All I want for Christmas is my four back teeth. 

Comments

[mizzmarvel.livejournal.com]

At least you have some good songs. My list has stuff like "Sk8r Boi." D:

[derien.livejournal.com]

It amuses me that you seem to think the music from 'my' high school age group is better than your own. You're really an old fart at heart, aren't you? ;) *adores*

[mizzmarvel.livejournal.com]

Oh, very much so. :D

[licking-suntan.livejournal.com]

The list for my year is awful. I loved lots of current music in high school, but I guess it just wasn't the most popular stuff.

[derien.livejournal.com]

it's a shame, but what's really good rarely seems to be popular.

[peak-in-darien.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the dentistry.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :) I'm trying to save my fears and wait to freak out until the time gets closer. I'm really afraid that if they put me under I might never wake up. It happened to a friend of a friend.