Ach, PC, that sucks big. Your mom needs to get over it. Tell her this is your LIFE, your WIFE and YOU. Tell her this is the latest thing in biodata -- it's statistically proven to find you a wife faster.

Or present an ultimatum -- it seems to be all she'll understand. "Either I do this MY WAY....or I'll never get married. Ever. Or...or...I'll start shopping around on J-Date!"

Jesus, is the woman never satisfied? I know she's your mom, but I would really, really like to beat her upside the head with a fat cluestick.

I LOVE your biodata.

{{{Cass}}} I'm so sorry, for your loss and for the gutpunch of how you found out.

Ohhh, Millay. Breathtaking and wrenching. Amazing writer, amazing human.

{{P-C}} Sorry. Augh. All your interactions with your family are just... Sisyphean with the uphill and the over and over. Sorry.

Is it morbid to say I want that poem read at my funeral? I love it so. Memorial, I guess, since I want to be crispified.

I want a big grieving, laughing, drunken, embarrasing-story filled, personal testimonial, music filled thang when I die.

Boring funerals are for boring people. I kinda want my death to be an event.

I've fucking had it with this shit. They don't fucking understand me, they never fucking have, and that is exactly why I don't fucking trust them to find me a wife. This is the only ammo I have.

Again, ULTIMATUM.

Seriously, present it as such. Either you do it my way, or no way at all. You're prepared to fulfill your familial duty (garg), but you'll do it this way ot not. It's her choice -- either she presents your biodata as is, to get a wife YOU want...or she won't be getting a daughter in law. Evah.

It sounds like your mom is a hard-ass, and if you take a hard-ass line with her, she'll bitch and moan...but she'll respect your manliness (double garg) if you don't back down. So DON'T.

I'm not. Not this time. Not anymore. But not right now, because I would start yelling and cursing and crying.

{{P-C}} I am so sorry, love. I went and read your biodata and I totally dig it and would seriously date you if I was, you know, 15 years younger.

Man I almost wish my Mom was picking for us. My sister's about to marry her boyfriend just because his green card is expired. He happens to be Indian. I wonder if there's any way we could get HIS Mom's number. Of course I bet my Mom would looove your biodata P-C.

serially...I love it too... except for that bit about Magnolia.

Ftr? Laga's sister's BF is a gigantic ASSHAT who refused to stop drinking on the night he was supposed to drive her home after her birthday dinner. And who expects said sister to support him. And who already has been in one green card marriage.

Laga, green cards don't expire. He's having his revoked, and I'm terribly afraid that he's just using your sister to get a new one. And this is none of my business, but I care about you and your sis, and the whole thing just makes me angry.

If that rant is TMI just tell me and I'll delete. Fuming right now.