One of the harder things to communicate effectively to non-Proposal-Landers is the intensity of always working in a deadline-driven environment. It wears you down. Well, it wore me down. Maybe that deadline pressure — on a daily basis! — explains the hard-drinking stereotype of the ink-stained wretch.
It’s only in retrospect that I can see that some (ahem) of my reactions were, perhaps, not entirely reasonable.
If it’s not too much trouble, would you be good enough to consider sending me the unedited and unshortened version of the above?
Jim – No. đŸ™‚ I won’t send it or consider it. I might not even be good enough.