Hitting a Cheetah with a Baseball Bat

I'm standing in the middle of a vast expanse where I can see for miles. I see a cheetah, which spots me too, and starts heading my way at a million miles per hour. 'Oh shit!' I think, 'What am I going to do when it gets here?' I scramble around frantically, and find a baseball bat. The dream gets very long here, as I anxiously take practice swings, and the cheetah gets closer and closer, but still very far away. I worry about timing my swing just right so that I can clobber the cheetah mid-pounce, and get into a stance that I believe will make this easier. It gets closer and closer and closer and closer... and the beast leaps! I swing! I wake up glad I didn't have to watch the end of that. Fall 2009.