Inventory
Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiousity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall nev
er attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laugter and hope and a sock in the eye.
--Dorothy Parker
There. I always said that when I finally got
around to doing a personal page,
that poem would be the first thing on it. It's more telling than anything I
could ever write about myself.
Not like that's stopping me from having a go at it.
Um, hi, by the way. Thanks for checking ou
t my pages. If you'd like to
see more of the pages I've designed, stuff I've written, or arty graphics
I've made, take a gander at the ever-changing gallery that is Stuff Rose Did.
So, let's see, what is there to say
about me? Well, I was named for
three of my great-grandmothers. I guess there weren't that many
names to go around in the Old Country. I'll answer to just about
any part of my full name or any mutations thereof, as long as they're
not too insultin
g. "Rose" does just fine for most purposes.
I graduated from UC Santa Cruz
in 1994 with a degree in American Studies (college honors,
distinguished service award, brag brag). One of these days
I'll put up the
sections of my senior thesis that reported my
original research on community formation over the Internet, but
it's going to take a while to get it properly html-ized.
I'm currently back in Los Angeles," but I do keep accounts on the
UCSC compu
ters in deference to my Santa
Cruz geek origins. I while away my days working over at Columbia
TriStar Interactive's SoapCity,
doing improv over at The
Next Stage, writing commentaries on the world (and all its
problems), wrangling WesWeb.net,
and contending with Cleo the
Wonder Cat. My mother thinks I'm the next
Molly Ivins. One of my lit professors said I could be the new Dorothy
Parker. If I publicized my recorder-playing more, someone would
probably try to convince me to pick up the guitar and become
the next Dyl
an. Thanks, folks, but I'm the first Rose Ellen Auerbach.
I really don't care if that sounds egocentric--that's what I am, and
what I want to be. (Okay, cue the Bradys! "Sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na... Sha-na-na-na-na..." Hmm, I really should fin
d a picture of me dressed as the anti-Cindy to put up here...)
So here I am. Rose Ellen Auerbach, the Trivia Queen, specializing
in American history and politics, international affairs, Jewish oral
tradition, and major depression and its treatm
ents, and occasionally
winning Ben Stein's Money.
I like chocolate and folk dancing, and don't like loud bars or people
who flake on me all the time. I plan to write some books and plays,
earn some more degrees,
and save the world with a laptop computer,
though not necessarily in
that order. I've been around since 7 October
1972 at 5:49 in the
morning, and plan to be here for a while longer.
It's been a life of
laughter and hope and a sock in the eye, and
I
hope I'm just getting started.
Rose Ellen Auerbach
auerbach@armory.com