I wrote this whole diatribe before I realized that I'm being a complete bitch.

[jmdazed]

I'm sure that a great many people actually purchase these images, but I just wanted to let you guys know that I have no intention of doing so. In one of my pictures I just look bad, which is not your responsibility to fix at all. In the other one half of the picture is taken up by some mysterious person's back and there is some unprofessional young woman standing in the rest of the picture. She is more visible than I am. I'm sorry to sound so rude, but I really expected better and if the picture had been me shaking hands with my dean than I would have bought it. I am only saying this in the hopes that in the future




I'm sure they were very frazzled on umass graduation day, but they keep emailing me because I haven't bought any of my terrible pictures. Nhan took far better ones, and nobody paid him to hold a camera.