Guess who can’t sleep right now. I think I’ll be taking my allergy medication in the mornings from now on.

What should one do in order to be productive when one cannot sleep? This morning, I thought I’d go for a run. Why not? I’ve been meaning to re-start my whole running thing and just never manage to find the time and motivation. I even set my alarm a few months back to do the 6AM running thing. But here’s the problem with living in the ‘hood: dogs.

Every single time I’ve ever tried to run in the pre-dawn hours in my nieghborhood, I get chased down by some loose dog. And being ‘hood dogs, they tend to be of the scarier types: pit bull, rotweiler, akita, chow or some particularly evil, ass-chewing mix thereof. Fuck that shit! Plus, today being “trash day,” you get rats and raccoons thrown into the mix of scavenging, ferocious dogs. This shit didn’t happen in Inman Park. Well, except for the rat and raccoon part.