Fluff is good, right?

( Cut for letter to body part mini-rant )

Today I have a lot of work and several meetings. Yay?

In less boring thoughts, I appear to be a fluffy person. Over Christmas I had two DVDs from Amazon: My Beauitful Laudrette and Nina's Heavenly Delights.

I could tell that the first was a very good film, well-written with good acting and lots of insightful things to say about 80s boom time, Pakistani culture in Britain, and other intelligent stuff. Except, um, I have to confess that I didn't actually love it as much as everyone assures me that I should.

The second film is a light, fluffy lesbian romance set in a curry house (work with me here) that had decent acting and a script that didn't creak or have holes in, but wasn't aimed at having an intense, insightful analysis of anything at all. I loved it. In fact, I loved it as much as I love Better Than Chocolate.

Obviously, intelligent scripts commenting on society and so on are just way beyond me. I'm about the pretty and the feel good. There is no hope for me ;-)

Question about American Presidents

Discussion of the primaries and politics in general has become essential at every meal time in my house now (as I shall be shortly sharing a border) and a question came up today that none of us could answer.

Does the President of the USA receive a salary while he is in office?

If anyone on my lovely knowledgeable flist could point me in the right direction, you'd have the gratitude of the entire Sel clan :-)