Thirteen Indicators You Might Be Suffering From Post-Proposal Syndrome
After four or five days of hard at it proposal writing and research, I think I might have some of the following symptoms:
- Your eyes glaze over whenever you see a stat sheet.
- Your pores smell like coffee whenever you sweat.
- You find yourself muttering to yourself “like that would ever happen” as you drive down the street.
- You hold long conversations with computer screens and actually feel like you have gleaned information.
- You question your fiance about her measurable indicators and wonder what documentation she will be providing to validate her projections.
- Hole punch machines chase you in your nightmares.
- You wake up with suspicious hole punching marks on your body.
- You scream every time you see a document with blinking cells.
- You find yourself signing papers in Arial 11pt. font.
- You can’t walk past a tree without feeling guilty for killing off their kin to publish your gazillion copies of three hole punched proposals.
- Your butt has no feeling in it and you’re pretty sure it died sometime during the fifth day.
- You find yourself hugging energy drinks at the store, weeping uncontrollably and whispering, “I love you man”
- You drop, tuck, and roll whenever you hear the sound of a ream of computer paper being opened.
Hope you have had a great week!
