Why you shouldn't trust Wikipedia

So I've finally decided to give in and start blogging. I know, I never thought this day would come either.

Well, you're probably wondering why on earth my blog is called Confessions of a Chipmunk. Honestly, there's absolutely nothing special about it. I was just randomly thinking about how awesome the squirrels are here at ECU today. When I sat down to create this thing and come up with a title, I couldn't seem to stop thinking about the squirrels. So I decided to have a name about squirrels. Then it hit me, I could name it after the squirrel's adorable little cousin, the chipmunk! So there you have it, my absolutely pointless explanation of my ridiculously pointless title.

Alright, so here it goes. Today while I was trying to set this up I somehow got on Wikipedia, and somehow ended up looking up Gibs, which is a nickname. It turns out that Gibs is an actual word, used in computer games, and it means various sized body parts or fragments produced when players are damaged or killed. So pretty much, the term gibs comes from the word giblets, which is all the yucky insides of a turkey or chicken. Great. And to make it even better, I then somehow ended up at the page for Gib, and the first thing it says is that gib may refer to a castrated cat or ferret. So my last name means that I am the son of a castrated ferret.


Today at work, I went from thinking about squirrels to tearing up. I was listening to the Passion podcast from Uganda way back in June. I recommend to everyone who has a heart for Africa to listen to it. But what really got to me was the part when Chris Tomlin was singing with the Matoto children's choir in his new song Love. These kids are all AIDS orphans, having lost either one or both parents to AIDS. They sang a part of the song in their native language, Luganda. They sang "O-kwa-ga-la-kwe, Ku-singa-byoo-na," which means "His Love is the Answer." Wow. These kids, with all they have been through, are singing about Christ's love being the answer. We can all learn a valuable lesson from these precious Ugandans.