sufficient unto the day. . . .

This has been, and I mean this quite literally, a crappy week, and delighted though I am to have a chance to use words like "mephitic" it is never a good thing when plumbers refer you to the hydro-jet guys who refer you back to the plumbers who start using phrases like "give you an estimate" and "city permits" and "you'll also need someone to take care of the concrete." There goes winging away many months of some entirely imaginary putative future pay, which is another reason to subscribe for a season in advance (because everything is theater after all, and vice versa): even I have been brought smack up against the cold hard brick wall of economic reality, but I have already bought (OK, charged) tickets that will carry me through dozens of evenings from September through June. Past extravagance can carry future rewards! Performing arts organizations may want to push this particular marketing angle, given the teetering state of the American economy.