HUXLEY, CHANNING OLIVIA

[CORAL OCEAN HANLEY]

[atrb=style,width: 420px; background-color: efefef; background-image: url(http://24.media.tumblr.com/0478144b9f16c95a37367d1aca56b45c/tumblr_mkfax8tDxp1s97ldco1_500.png); padding: 5px, bTable] CHANNING O. HUXLEY 23 | HETEROSEXUAL | NURSE/PARAMEDIC | EMERGENCY CREW | BEHATI PRINSLOO THE INTERVIEW HELLO. THANKS FOR COMING IN TODAY. SHALL WE START WITH YOUR NAME? "Hello to yourself as well. I'm not fully sure if I should be glad to be here or not though. My name, though, is, um.... Channing. Channing Oliva Huxley. People just call me Chan, or Hux though. But... um, only those close to me though." THAT'S A NICE NAME. WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING? "For a living I tend to save people. Probably more then I do myself, but shhhh...... I don't want anyone else to know that. I'm a paramedic, but I'm also a nurse with rotations and all. But I actually like being a paramedic because you're out and about instead of being cooped up in a hospital running around and help patients and doctors out, though. But during the summer I have a very light schedule due to it being summer and warm outside and all I teach swimming lessons. Yes I'm a swim coach, for little kids that is. Every once in a while I do get the occasional older kid, the teenager who wants to learn how to swim and never did when they were younger. It's not like I can pass them up or anything, I do get paid for swimming lessons, it's just that that occasional older kid, teenager usually ends up being some hormone filled boy who wants to drool all over the hot coach as a bet from his friends or something. And it's disgusting and disturbing that they even sign up for my lesson in the first place." INTERESTING. WHAT DO YOU DO FOR FUN? "For fun, well, um... I like swimming, running, anything that's outdoors pretty much. The fresh air feels a lot better than the musty air I live with in my small apartment so I don't stay in that very often. Because you see I'm a pretty active person and I just love to be out in the sun at all times of the day. I don't really care if I get skin cancer or anything like that just because I love the warmth of the sun or anything. Because well I do love the warmth of the sun. I am only capable of getting sunburn at least a few times throughout the summer, and then the rest I just turn really dark because of all the activities I do outside. I love sitting on a swing eating ice cream in a waffle cone and letting the melted ice cream drip down on me, like when you're a little kid and that happens and then you's all sticky and in a mess. It reminds me of being a child so I love doing that. I love hanging around children, they are the brightest people in the world, adults today seem so uptight and serious all the time that it's no fun when you have to go talk to them about something. Kids though, they have the biggest imaginations ever and they love to have your company around. Especially when I teach swimming lessons, they always want me to watch them as they do their stunt or help them learn how to do a certain move to help them swim. They are adorable creatures, and I love them to death. Though there are very few things in this world that I absolutely hate, but to be honest they really shouldn't be leaving this interview in the first place. The things I hate the most tend to be relationships. Any kind of relationship. Not like a relationship one has with children or anything because I love spending time with children, but when you're adult and having any kind of relationship then, well it just seems, feels weird. I just don't know what to do with myself when talking to another person really. Like in the hospital it's somewhat more easier to just avoid getting to know a person because you'll only be with them for a short time and you might hear their story, but then it's like 'I won't be around this person forever so I don't mind hearing it or anything'. But then when you have to work with someone a lot longer and you start getting more attached to that person somehow then it's like 'What the hell am I going to do?' So yeah, I hate relationships. I'm not good at them I prefer to just hang with myself and enjoy the fun I can with myself. Unless something totally out of the blue happens, which it won't, I won't change my dislikes in the world." WOULD YOU SAY THOSE ACTIVITIES REFLECT WHO YOU ARE? "Those items that I said before do represent me in the most possible way, because you know I am this friendly person at least when I want to be. To children I am on my best behavior. They bring out the best in me, and it's something that I always look forward to in life. Is to have children of my own because teaching children to swim is a passion of mine and I love teaching them. I'm just so much more open to them and more on the friendly side to them than say adults. I feel more like myself to them, feel more comfortable with them around me. They don't judge you for what you have done or have yet to get done. They only expect the best from you, and I would personally like to keep it that way. Because with children they are these people who are harsh to judge and children seem to understand when things are going rough in someone's life even if I don't actually say it. The look on my face before out session even starts they can just tell. That's one of the reasons why children are the best company for me per say. Now with how I deal with the adults of the real world is such a different area. People at the pool are nice and dandy and all, but like when you get out there though it's a little rough. Working as a paramedic you see all sorts of people out there hurt, injured, delusional, unable to help themselves. It's just so much different to understand. I have to put on my grown up face and pretend that I'm this person who is going to save this person's life. Like I'm going to be there for them when no one else was, or something. I have to act serious and be professional, not something I always like doing, but it comes with the job. So with how I deal with these strangers is something completely different with how I deal with the children. I'm more firm to say the less. As if I'm trying to treat and help someone who is hard of hearing. Like I would say, 'Sir, do you know where you?' Something like that. But like firm and loud enough for the person to hear it. And it's the same way when I'm in the hospital doing my duties as a nurse. I'm firm, yet gentle with some of the patients there. Especially with the children. I can always bring out a smile for them and at least make their stay in hospital just a little more relaxing. Pretending to be this person who has no life or persona to help other people just sort of freaks me out a little bit. It's hard to explain, but pretending to be this other person when I'm not being myself or around children is hard. Especially for me. I'm still young in my life and to be this serious person now is extremely hard. I want to stay this young person as long as possible, but I would also like to make sure these people are actually cared for. So when they say don't get up close and personal with people that are in the hospital or when you go pick them up while I'm being a paramedic, they are right. It's hard to detach yourself from them and their lives. It's their lives that are on the line and being apart of them is hard for me. Especially when I'm out there giving swimming lessons to little kids, I start to know them a little bit more after each session and if I did that in the hospital I would be getting no where. It's something that is apart of me that I just shut off completely. Another person is part of me that I don't quite fully understand, but yet I do. You get my meaning here? I know it's hard to explain, but it's true. I'm not this happy go lucky girl in there. These relationships are what explain mostly about who I am, truly. It makes it so that when I talk to other adults, I just don't know what to say to them because I'm still somewhat in that mode of not wanting to get close to people really. And getting close to someone is somewhat bad when you're in a profession like mine, but I guess it just comes with the job and boundaries you make in it. But that's just my job persona really. I seem completely different outside of work, outside the limits of the pool. I'm just this different person all together, in the end. But then again, I guess everyone really is. The way of life is just a mystery, I guess. When I'm out all by myself or with the select few friends that I have, I seem to be this chipper, talkative person. Like a little bit more bubbly in the sense, but being self aware of knowing what exactly I'm doing though. Well I wouldn't really call myself bubbly though, because I hate talking to other people when I'm enjoying time by myself and with friends. I guess it's just a weird explanation I just put on the table really. Because I'm this soft spoken person, who is always a little cautious with the biggest things in life. I take everything another step further before actually deciding on what I really want to do. I over examine it per say, and think about it way too much. I over think a lot of things and then it just sort of ruins the moment and I just drop it completely. But to tell you the truth, I'm actually quite shy. I just don't appear like I am or anything because well it seems weird to be. But with relationships especially I can become very shy, and some of my friends make me uncomfortable in the worst way possible. But as it is, that's what friends are suppose do, aren't they?" A COOL CAT LIKE YOU MUST HAVE A TON OF SUITORS FLOCKING TO YOU, HUH? "Haha. Of course this is one of the questions for this interview. You're serious, aren't you? Oh wow, I don't really know how to answer this, to you or to myself really. To think about my love life is just a little odd because I don't really have one. Like I've dated a few guys back during my high school days, but that's about it. Nothing really after that though. Though I do act like a teenage girl at times and crushing over a few guys, but you know they don't haven't really turned into anything serious. Most of the men I crush on never turn out to be happy in the end. I never get the chance to go up to them and say, 'Hey I like you, would you go on a date with me.' I'm too shy and soft spoken about any of that. I just like to stand back at a distance to just look at the view. You know, the view of their six packs, their hot fit bodies, their interesting details that stand out about them. Anything like that, but to think one would fall for me, is well just odd. Yes I might get hit on by a few disorderly people who I have to pick up on my run with my partner in the ambulance to the hospital and all, but nothing ever exciting happens in the my love life or my sex life to be honest. Nothing. End of story." COOL BEANS. THEY SAY YOUR FAMILY SHAPES WHO YOU ARE. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOURS? "You could say I'm one of those weird fish people because I have a lot of fish at home, but then again I guess all people hear about are the old crazy cat ladies with the million different cats running around. To say the least I have at least ten different species of fish in two different tanks. I have a fresh water tank and then a salt water tank. Its sometimes a hassle to clean out the fish tanks and to make sure the pH level is just right. Especially for the salt water tank. That tank is the source of most problems I have at home, making sure the fish stay alive, stay happy and their water doesn't change on them. But for the most it's pretty interesting to watch the fish that I have in those two tanks. But considering I'm a swimmer and all it sort of makes sense that I have fish as pets, just because they are extraordinary animals to have and to watch, as long as people know how to take care of them of course. Though with my family, I wouldn't say I'm very close to them as they sort of moved away from Brunswick as soon as I was of age and was able to live on my own, peacefully. But I do call my mother every once in a while. On holidays, birthdays, random days of the week. Things like that. They come to visit everyone once in a while, but it requires them to make a fuss over every little detail though. Considering they moved all the way across the country to California and all, it's somewhat hard for them to even plan properly. My father is a writer, so he could be anywhere in the world and be happy as can be. My mother being the overbearing, over excited person wanted to make sure my younger sister had a better opportunity with life, whatever that meant. But considering my younger sister, Tibby is a pretty good student, and did everything right, she gets what she wants. Tibby and I aren't as close as we use to be, considering the miles apart from us. But we do Skype every once in a while when I have the time, anyways. Though the relationships I have with my parents are a little strain. To say we were ever close is an understatement. My parents and I bickered back and forth on things. We could never really get any where with a solid answer. With my father he was too self involved with his writing to care about anything other than that, so we didn't really have a close enough relationship. He didn't seem to care about my swim meets either. So another item to add to our relationship being on the rocks. My mother on the other hand was just about the same. Never really being there for me, but always there for Tibby. So I guess the only real family relationship that I would love to hold on to is the one with my sister. Because Tibby and I would spend hours together doing whatever we wanted. Whether it was for help on homework, talking about boys, learning how to be adults without our parents help. Anything was on the table and it still is. And that's what I would rather keep with my family members. Them to be as far away as possible, but keep my sister close to my heart at all times." AND YOUR LIFE? TELL ME ABOUT YOUR PAST. I'M EAGER TO HEAR. "Well what exactly would you want to know about my history anyways? It's not like it's that great. I can give a few snippets right now about it. I was born on July fourth, yeah I know. Probably not the best day, but who knows what others think about that though. I truly like it because as a little girl I always had pool parties, but it sort of sucked because it was in the dead center of summer and school was already out. So my mom always called the parents of the kids in my class to see if they wanted to celebrate. Though it was usually a few days before or after because everyone had plans. Just because it was the fourth of the July. But the best part of my parties were that we had sparklers as night rolled around and all of us had fun spelling our names out. And just making oddly shaped items with them. But my birthday parties were the best and my sister was always annoyed with mine being in the summer and her birthday being in the dead of winter. But you know those were just happy memories of my birthday parties, nothing too exciting from those, I guess. Maybe if someone want more information on me or something, but that's nothing to big anyways. Well here goes nothing. I'm eldest daughter of Leroy "Lee" Huxley and Matilda "Mattie" Huxley. My mother use to tell me I had an older brother as she tuck me in at night, but he somehow died or something before I was born. Which supposedly happened four years before I was born. So I don't really know who he was or what he looked like since my parents took his photos down around the house before I could even recollect memories. If she told me what his name was, I completely have forgotten it. And I highly doubt Tibby would even know what his name was anyways. So who knows if my mother is even telling the truth at that though, she likes to lie about some things way too much. But if she is lying about this, then my father's in on it too, and he just doesn't seem like the person to hide anything from his daughters, but who know with either one of them though. My sister, Tibby, or from what her birth certificate says, Tabitha, is only six years younger than me, so right now she is about seventeen years old. Probably a senior in high school knowing her. We both did really well in school and always felt as if we were left out during our classes as we just sorted stuck out as smart people. But don't get me wrong, I wasn't at the top of my class though. I was in the top twenty of the highest grades, but not number one. And I really think that's what Tibby is hoping for. To be the top of her class and to rub it in my face for it, too. Though as we had always been close as siblings, Tibby and I always seemed to be closer to each other than to our parents. Every so often we managed to sneak out of the house at night without our parents knowing, and we did a pretty good job at it, that they never really expected us to be missing. When we left the house at night we usually didn't really go very far, maybe to see a movie, or go to the ice cream parlor to get some ice cream. Just somewhere else to spend time together without our parents eavesdropping on us and being big pains in our asses. We sometimes hang out on the swings at night just chatting away for hours before we realized what time it was and venture our way back to the house. Getting into the house always seemed to be a little bit harder than getting out of. The way we entered our house from the outside was through one of our windows, preferably one that had a fence of sorts. One of us would go through the window first just to make sure nothing was out of place within the house before the other came in. And then once the close was clear the other one would come in. Our parents never seemed to notice our disappearances though. Our father spent too much time writing and staying focused on his books. Our mother, I don't really know what she actually did. Though I had suspicions. Suspicions that she was cheating on my father, just because she didn't seem like she loved him anymore. And that she always appeared happy when she returned home from somewhere, without him by her side. Well that was life in the Huxley household for you. It wasn't too exciting to say the least and I guess it wasn't too boring either. There were many things that happened throughout the last years of my high school career though. Considering I was really good at the science portion of school and on the swim team, I was pretty busy and didn't have a lot of time to do a lot things. My parents never came to my swim meets, my father seemed like it was obvious to why he didn't come. He always had dead lines, I don't know if he ever met them or not. But mother shouldn't have had an excuse to miss any of them though. I think those times when we were out of the house and away from home, she spent them to herself doing who knows what. But I still think it was on some other guy she was seeing though. It just seems like something she would do though. Go on and act like a teenager, young adult again and flirt around with people just because her life seem somewhat boring. At least that's what she keeps telling me about. My mother and I have not seen eye to eye for years, to be honest I don't think have ever seen eye to eye. She always appeared to be jealous with my life because I was good at something and she wasn't. I was good with science and biology, did really well on the swim team and I wanted to be a nurse when I got out of high school. My mother on the other hand didn't have any such dreams like that. She just sort of seem bland, boring as if she just lived her life to just live it like a normal, boring human being. Without effort of making it exciting. At least exciting without her children being involved in it anyways. But to say the least I am about done talking about my mother, as she made it clear to me as soon as I was out of the house and was stable enough to live on my own they were moving. My mother never really told me where exactly they were moving too. Not even a peep. Somewhere in the state, in the country, out of the country, across the ocean to another continent. Tibby actually told me because she wanted me to stay in her life somehow at least. Though she never really made it an interest to want to live with me or anything, as if she liked living with our parents and just staying with them until she was finished with high school. By the time she was finished though, I think my mother would be fully alone and would most likely only have her boy toy to mess around with. But there you have it, my extremely uneventful life. Don't know how much that would have helped you with anything though." WHAT ABOUT A SECRET? EVERYONE HAS A SECRET. "You want to know a secret I have? Is that even a valid question to be asking here? Because you know that's personal, and I don't want to share it, because you know it is personal and it's a secret. Get my meaning? Besides why would I tell a stranger my secret anyways, because you're probably going to gossip about it and ruin everything. And then I'm going to be the bad person because then I would be known as a home wrecker and a disgrace to the community. Especially to the little kids that I teach swimming lessons to. And then my job, people wouldn't understand and they wouldn't want to work with me anymore. It would be a disaster if I told you that I was the mayor's mistress. OH MY GOD! I hate you. I just spilled the beans on something that shouldn't have even left my mouth." ALRIGHT. TIME'S ALMOST UP. TELL ME ABOUT YOUR DREAMS. QUICK! "To be honest I don't know if I should talk to you about my dreams, just because you made me blurt out my secret. My secret that was suppose to be secret and you're a dirty rat trying to snoop into people's lives. Though I might as well finish your stupid interview anyways. Because I'm sure you're just dying to know what I would like to accomplish in my life time. Which is actually pretty simple. I would love to have a family of my own. Pretty simple I guess, I don't really know how many kids I would want though. As many as I can take care of I guess. Children are full of imagination and that imagination is power to them. To see them be all happy and excited is what helps me get through anything. So I would prefer to have children of my own, but the birthing process of it all sort of scares me a little bit. But just a small set back I guess. If it's even possible, I would probably adopt kids too. Just because I know there are tons out there wanting homes, and you know it's not fair to them that the parents that gave birth to them abandoned them. Being abandoned is no fun." AND THAT'S A WRAP. IT WAS NICE GETTING TO KNOW YOU. "How about you just shove a sock down your piehole and choke on it? You're a dirty rat and if any of this information gets leaked out to the public, I will find some hit man to beat you to a pulp or something. I mean it. And good day you to." BEHIND THE MASK TENNYSON | TWENTY | MOUNTAIN | I NOW LIVE HERE | LIONEL, HENRY, JOSEF, NINA

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[atrb=style,width: 350px; background-color: efefef; background-image: url(http://24.media.tumblr.com/0478144b9f16c95a37367d1aca56b45c/tumblr_mkfax8tDxp1s97ldco1_500.png); padding: 5px, bTable] ACCEPTED WELCOME TO BACKSEAT SERENADE & DON'T FORGET YOUR CLAIMS The ending got me laughing pretty hard. xD I really like the way she seems bland at first, but she has these really specific details about her life that make her interesting. She makes it out like she had an average life, but there were parts of it that really affected her. The part I like best is that she and her mother don't see eye-to-eye, but they're both apparently involved in affairs. LOVE IT. Now, don't forget to post her in the campaign thread -- and don't forget about the claims and cell phone thread! (: