Why not get an Oz magazine to have you cover the GFM NPW for them (since you are paying the expenses it is likely one would). Then you can claim it is a professional international job, that you could not pass up without damaging your career.

BTW I walked away from my family years ago, but I was a lot older than you when I finally realised they were pure poison to me.

--

Tanya Mayer Photography wrote:

hardy, har, har!!

I promise you Cotty, somewhere, someday, I will "grace" you with my bony
butt...! lol...  Maybe, I can take a pic of it with my *istD when I get it,
and post it in a PUG someday... hehe...

BTW, had I been "thinking up" an excuse, I promise it would've been much
more exotic - maybe something like, "I've just found out that I am pregnant
with triplets, each with two heads and five legs, and due to arrive on June
5.  I will be having national press coverage at the birth and thought that
it would give me and my website better publicity than that I could've
received from travelling to GFM..."

tan.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "pentax list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: GFM and a CRAPPY weekend...




On 15/12/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:


GFM - well, BAD news guys and gals!  After all of my efforts last week,
booking of airfares, taking up of very generous offers from PDML'ers etc,

my


stupid sister (who you will soon find I don't like very much), has gone

and


decided to get married to the guy she's been shagging for the past 4

weeks


(yep, you read that correctly!), and guess what day it is? 5 June 2004!!

To


her credit, she HAS known the guy for most of her life, but the actual
relationship only began in earnest FOUR WEEKS AGO!! So, of course, I am

in


big trouble for not wanting to shoot the "blessed event" in favour of

going


to GFM, and so I have had to cancel my trip for fear of retribution from

my


very overbearing mother who doesn't want anything to interfere with her
little princesse's "special day".  (Yes, you do detect sarcasm and

cynicism


there, long story, not relevent to this list).  So, in exchange for an
international trip, yummy pizza, a squishy (but probably hilarious) road
trip, the ultimate in learning opportunities, and the company of 20-30

very


cool people, I get to spend the day taking photos of a person who I don't
like very much while being yelled at by a mother who doesn't like me very
much...  On a brighter note, I may be able to enable my self with a

certain


digital slr very soon, - in fact might do it just to spite them all, and
giver her her wedding pics on cd (she doesn't own a computer! lol)...

Tanya, you've had all this time to think of an excuse and this is the best you can come up with???

Pity, I was looking forward to your bony butt ;-)



Cheers,
 Cotty


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