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Jason and I were priveleged to be a part of the largest crowd in college football this past Saturday as we watched Penn State defeat Purdue in the last home game of Penn State's season. The game was awesome; this was also a wonderful time to see Steve. Yesterday was Jason and my two year wedding anniversary. Unfortunately we both had class at 6:00 pm, though, I had a test so we were home before normal time, - I take tests extrememly quickly:) - which was nice on the occasion of our anniversary.

This week in Microbial Ecology, the professor spoke on the topic of Symbiotic relationships. For a bit of background, these are relationships between two distinct species in which the organisms are in direct contact with each other, and both organisms benefit from the interaction. Microbes love to interact and the relationships of this kind involving microbial species are widespread in nature. -Some key examples being Rhizobium species and Legumes, Enteric bacteria and a human's digestive system, and Methanogens in the stomachs of Ruminants.- As the professor explained how these relationships occur and evolve he stated that over evolutionary time the individual species will increasingly become reliant on one another for survival, and the interaction will become more efficient. Also, each species will have to make sacrifices for the good of the interaction. I was blown away! This sounded like an almost perfect description of God's plan for a healthy marraige. I mean, sure, sacr...