ok, here goes. please add any edits you think might be hellpful, i'm dreadful at this stuff.
i'm mailing the MD of the company who headhunted me..

Hi there xxxx, I hope you remember me. My name is Pete, we met briefly at the xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx demo at xxxxxx in xxxxxx.. I'm xxxxxx xxxxxxx's Graphic Designer.
Unfortunately I didn't get the chance to attend the second meeting, as I was on holiday. I understand that there's going to be some interaction between myself and your creative team regarding the new signage installs in your stores. The understanding I had from the first meeting was that there was a potential need for a designer to bridge the gap between what your team are doing currently, and the more digital end of things, signage, website etc? If this is the case, while I'm sure you have a ton of portfolios from designers applying for the position, I'm just getting in touch to say I would love the opportunity to work with your creative team, whether that would be in my role as designer for xxxxx xxxxxx, or otherwise. I can send you examples of my work, and a CV if required, I simply didn't want to be presumptuous and clog your inbox with unsolicited files. I'm available for contact on this email, or on mobile xxxxxxxxxxx. This is my personal phone and email, and if possible, I would prefer for the time being that this conversation remained private, for obvious reasons.
Thanks for taking the time to read this, I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards

Pete







//msg

is there anything too retarded in there?
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:23, 42 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Yeah, like 7 BILLION LINE BREAKS

(PsychoChomp, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:26, Reply)

Fine grovelling.
Just don't enclose a sample of sperm/pubic hair. I find this puts people off.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:27, Reply)

don't use the word "myself"
unless you are saying something like "by myself"

"your creative team and I" or even "me and your creative team" are better. otherwise you sound like a dick, regardless of how common it is for people to say that these days.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:27, Reply)

It's 'between your creative team and me'
"your creative team and I" and "me and your creative team" are both grammatically incorrect.

*tuts*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:29, Reply)

still better than myself though
my dislike of that sort of thing was clouding my judgement
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:37, Reply)

That's true
I'd rather be thought of a simpleton with no grasp of basic English that a colossal shirter who says 'myself'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:39, Reply)

Using "myself"
actually makes you look like someone who is trying to be posh, but doesn't understand it. A Mrs Bucket/Bouquet type person
(Bazongaloid, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:41, Reply)

indeed it does
worse than myself however is saying yourselves. some of the gargantuan arse-bandits in my office tend to do that.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:47, Reply)

It's a bit 'Colin Hunt' from the Fast Show, is it not.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:49, Reply)

Ugh. Ghastly.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:48, Reply)

Colossal Shirter
Now officially part of the monders lexicon of ace phrases. I recently added dicksplash from a post on here, too. Marvellous.
(The Boy Monders I have ginger bits in my beard., Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:44, Reply)

Wrong.
Anything with "me" is incorrect in this context, too, since the subject of the sentence is in the first person; hence the pronoun should be nomonative.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 13:10, Reply)

Could you explain that please?
I'm a scientist and not a linguist, but I had thought that because the 'creative team and Pete' was the object of the sentence he would refer to himself as 'me'.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 13:38, Reply)

It depends on the context.
"The creative team and I thought that this would be a worthwhile project."

"He entrusted the project to the creative team and me."

I was just correcting the "correction".
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 13:52, Reply)

Therefore
it should be "I understand that there's going to be some interaction between your creative team and me..."

Or would the original "I understand that there's going to be some interaction between myself and your creative team..." be OK, because it's self-referential?

My leaning is towards the former.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 14:01, Reply)

I thought you were properly head hunted
It appears you simply bumped into the MD at some show.

I have it in mind sir, that you are a berk.

Please correct me if I am wrong.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:28, Reply)

i correct you
we did a demo, the MD asked where we got some media i'd done, i told him i did it that day, he said 'do you want to work in acton?' then my boss went 'don't you headhunt him!' and there was some uneasy laughter. then he handed me his business card...
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:30, Reply)

OK
But cut the waffle in your text.

Say We met at such and such, you gave me your card, I'm interested, how do we proceed?

Good luck still.

In future watch your "being a berk" tendencies.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:50, Reply)

This.
Not so much the berk bit.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:54, Reply)

I agree
Carry on being a berk
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:56, Reply)

is berking like belming
but less spazzy and more hugh-grant-ish?
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 11:00, Reply)

I'm going to be kind here
I'm using the term berk in a mildly offensive modern manner.
You could call your mum a berk and survive.

It is believed that berk is a reduction of the rhyming slang phrase "Berkley Hunt" Which you should not use in reference to your mum.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 11:05, Reply)

Ha haaa!
Ouch!

Sorry Pete, that's not head hunting. Aggressively persuing your talents at any cost is. He was just doing what folk with bizznizz cards do. Innit.
(The Boy Monders I have ginger bits in my beard., Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:45, Reply)

ok, so it's not a proper headhunting
but it's definitely a potential in. especially considering he made a point of later explaining to me that they needed a designer top bridge the gap betweeen their current guys and the digital end of things, and this was explained directly to me rather than the other two people there.
gotta be worth a shot, right?
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:52, Reply)

Very much so.
Go for your life.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:57, Reply)

Too self-effacing
You need to imply that they need you because you're ace.

Ditch 'while I'm sure you have a ton of portfolios from designers applying for the position', and 'I simply didn't want to be presumptuous and clog your inbox with unsolicited files'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:28, Reply)

sound advice
i need to MTFU.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:31, Reply)

and kill yourself, of course.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:33, Reply)

Also attach CV

and a link to " ove horses", MD's love a good gag!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:30, Reply)

GAZ HIM YOUR COCK, MAN!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:34, Reply)

Sounds very negative in tone.
There's nothing I'd say was particularly heinous in there, but the whole thing does come off (to me) as a bit tentative and apologetic. You're not wasting his time; you're offering him your services, which he sought out. I'd rewrite the communication to sound more professional, with less colloquial English; just because it's an informal email, doesn't mean it doesn't contribute to his opinion of your professionalism.

Also, there are too many kisses, mostly in the opening. Just put one or two at the end.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:33, Reply)

Hahaa!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:33, Reply)

He may be a shirter though Monty.
In which case, there are not enough kisses.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:36, Reply)

Maybe sign off, "missing you xxx"

(PsychoChomp, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:36, Reply)

I don't receive enough emails with kisses in
I would like more. The kisses should stay.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:36, Reply)

Alright Althegeordie?

(Flim-Flam the Magnificent "You is talking loco and I like it!", Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:43, Reply)

Alright flim-flam
how are your delicates?
(Bazongaloid, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:52, Reply)

pffft.
i like the cut of your jib.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:37, Reply)

Damn it man, do you want the job or not?
GIVE ME THE JOB OR I WILL KILL YOUR CHILDREN YOU FUCKING CUNT!
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:36, Reply)

Be remembered.
Attach a copy of your favourite "Winter Warmer" recipe, for those chilly November evenings spent harmonising your lonely sobs with the gentle hum of your electric fire.
(TheColonel, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 10:49, Reply)

right.
trimmed, edited, de-berked.. about to click send.
if this backfires, expect to see a LOT more of me :D this could either go wonderfully, not at all, or my bookies favourite likely outcome, option c: horrible horrible doomy doom-doom.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 11:05, Reply)

Definite MTFU!

( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Wed 10 Feb 2010, 11:41, Reply)