The Dog Days Are Over

This is it. My last weekend of unplanned, though much needed furlough from working. I start on Tuesday in my new capacity as an account executive for Jarvis Property Restorations and Great Lakes Cleaning. I am really excited to work for a new company and continue on with my current company in a different capacity.

My brain is liquefying from being at home so much. I admit to be so stir crazy that I have become ineffective. You know how sometimes you just curl into a ball and the world goes by you? I am in the ball. Thoreau would say my hodiernal circle is out pacing me. Thoreau was a goof. Don't get me started on Thoreau.

So, I can't wait. I awoke this morning the the song "Dog Days Are Over" by Florence and the Machine running through my head. Click the link if you would like to hear the song. For those of you not so inured, the lyrics follow:

Happiness / hit her / like a train on a track
Coming towards her / stuck still / no turning back
She hid around corners / and she hid under beds
She killed it with kisses and from it she fl-ed
With every bubble she sank with a drink
And washed it away down the kitchen sink.
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horses are comin' so you better run
Run fast for your mother; run fast for your father
Run for your children all your sisters and brothers
Leave all your love and your longing behind.
You can't carry it with you / if you want to survive
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses
'Cos here they come
And I never wanted
anything from you
Except
everything / you had
And / what was left after that too / Oh!
Happiness / hit her / like a bullet in the back
Struck from /a great height
By someone /who should have known better / than that
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses
'Cos here they come
Run fast for your mother / run fast for your father
Run for your children all your sisters and brothers
Leave all your love and your longing behind
You can't carry it with you / if you want to survive
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
Can you hear the horses
'Cos here they come
The dog days are over
The dog days are done
The horse-s are comin'
So you'd better run

Indeed. The dog days are over. I suppose that this level of optimism is unwarranted given that my crystal ball is still in the shop and I have no idea what the future holds. But isn't that the great thing about optimism (or faith or hope)? You do it even though you have no right to. Hopefully attitude is everything and I have everything under control.