My friends are wonderful people with their own very varied interests, as is my little sister. My dad was an engineer and I suppose that’s where I get a lot of my scientific curiosity, but we don’t get along very well, at all. I had a rather unusual childhood, and I think that in some ways has led to me seeking out my happiness wherever it can be found: in the form of information or whatever else I find interesting. I’m proud of my uniqueness in this regard. I’ve always believed knowledge to be worth its own pursuit.

In the process of getting my B.A, I jumped around between five colleges, taking what fulfilled the requirements of my major-at-the-time and suited my fancy. In this way, I’ve taken classes in the physical and social sciences and done a lot of extracurricular activities in the arts. Since college, I’ve discovered an appreciation for working in bookstores and being able to borrow the stock—as I read ravenously—but it doesn’t pay very well.

I know the basics of HTML—though mostly the HTML I have used on my personal website, which because of FTP issues hasn’t been updated in a long while. I’m in the process of making a new one, since UCSC was supposed to remove this one when I graduated, but the link is to the one that works.

My hobbies are many and varied: I call them “obsessions,� and they range from Andy Kaufman to Queer As Folk to Young Adult (YA) fiction. I write fiction, you see, and I’m part of Mensa, and that means I’m constantly looking for bizarre information at all hours of the night.

In studying human culture, I studied humanity, and that requires a great variety of methods. I have written, directed and edited two of my own films; for my senior thesis, I interviewed some twenty children in local elementary schools.

My name is Rebecca Gold. I was born and raised in San Jose, California, and I’m a (fairly) recent graduate from UCSC, with a B.A. in Anthropology. If this doesn’t show my ability to multi-task and cover different subjects with grace, I don’t know what does.

Salutations!