This post is a mashing together of three separate post that have been saved-as-drafts for over a week, plus some other random notes. First of all, I'd like to cut & paste the comment Amanda left in the last post, but I'll leave out the mushy stuff:

yes the art fair was great and it made me proud to be from ypsi, as i often am, and it made me think that if i were to ever move back here i would live differently. i would be more active in my community and more like mark. ypsi is really suffering right now and i love that mark and others like him are working so hard to make a [difference] and a change for the better to bring ypsi back. that was my favorite part of the fair. it was inspiring. the only down side i noticed was that it needed to big held in a bigger place (so many people showed up that there was barely room to walk around) :)

I just thought it was a nice comment and it should be easier to stumble across. On a semi-related note, here are a few pictures I was finally able to send to flickr while I was in Jackson, I don't get service here in Onsted, the one of the little girl upside down is from the Shadow Art Fair, and the other two are from Ann Arbor later that night:







And speaking of "Ann Arbor later than night" here is a short out-of-focus video I took of a few Jesus-freaks doing a good job of scaring the general public. The entire 2 or 3 hours Amanda and I spent roaming the streets near campus they were set up and non-stop in their rambling, and they didn't look like they planned on packing up any time soon. I'm sure they mean well...