Symbolic Links with Absolute Paths?

[Geremia]

Is there a way to force ln to convert relative paths to absolute ones? man ln says:

if later resolved, a relative link is interpreted in relation  to
       its parent directory.

E.g., I want to avoid writing:

ln -s "$(pwd)"/myfile /directory/of/mylink

and just write:

ln -s myfile /directory/of/mylink

If I do not include the pwd, resolving it later causes errors. ls -l would say "mylink -> /another/directory/with/myfile" instead of "/directory/of/mylink -> /another/directory/with/myfile". Why is this? Thanks

Let me do a specific example in case what I wrote above was unclear.

$ ln -s DSC_7071.JPG ~/Desktop/test.jpg
cd ~/Desktop/
$ ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 alan alan 12 2011-07-06 14:52 test.jpg -> DSC_7071.JPG

Why doesn't it say the following?

lrwxrwxrwx 1 alan alan 12 2011-07-06 14:52 test.jpg -> /directory/in/which/I/ran/ln-s/DSC_7071.JPG

, where "/directory/in/which/I/ran/ln-s/" is where I ran ln -s? Thanks