Post by lucas on Dec 27, 2011 20:46:45 GMT -5
| [atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: #eeeeee, border: #59b1ba 5px solid; width: 400px; height: 500px;] hey there. the name's LUCAS ASHTON TAYLOR! i go by LUKE if you were wondering. also i'll have you know that i am 30 & loving it. oh. you've heard that I'm HETEROSEXUAL? & that I'm from ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA? well the rumors are true for once. well I gotta get going, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC is calling. see ya'! bee tee dubs, i'm a GRADUATE. HISTORY, unlike my siblings, i never had the urge to stay in australia. i mean, australia's nice. bloody brilliant actually. nice climate, pretty ladies, and the beaches and cities are beautiful. but the thing is that australia is just one continent, one country. there's still an entire world out there to explore. seven continents. almost two hundred countries. what the hell was i doing staying in australia when there was all that to discover? but i've always been a little more...different than my younger siblings. more eccentric. happier might i add. i've just wanted to experience so much more, break out of my comfort zone and make myself awkward to discover more about who i am. i've been like that since i was little. mum said that i was running before i could even walk just so i could do things a little differently than all the other children. and i'm okay with that honestly. it's nice to know that i was this awesome little child running around raising hell before i could even talk, defying boundaries and stereotypes before i even knew that the words meant. i think it just shows who i am as a person - a rambunctious young fellow who has never done things normally. growing up, i was fairly well-liked. some people thought i was a little much to handle between my eccentricities and sarcasm and the fact that half of what i spouted out was a lot of song and movie quotes but on the whole, people liked me. i mean i'm good-looking. i'm funny. i'm friendly. what's not to like? and it wasn't like i had to go through this big long spiritual journey to figure that out either. it's just how i've always been. i mean it's how our family is - just very accepting and loyal and funny and kind. we're all like that. well except ada who can be a little too business-focused but even then she has this giant soft spot for people if you know how to break through her business face. i wish i could tell you that i had this deeply interesting childhood and that all this awesome shit happened to me while i was in school...but that'd be a lie. all the stuff that was interesting? didn't even happen to me until i graduated from uni. our family has always had connections with these people from national geographic - they were going to pick up ada, actually, and our sister is in line for writing after she graduates and all of that. me? i'm a photographer. a damn good one if i must say so myself. i travel around with a writing team and photograph them among all the....well awesomeness. haha. whatever they happen to be surrounded by. african savannas. south asian jungles. european mountains. with tribes or with animals or whatever locals happen to be around. it's a great job, actually. all the traveling and whatever. i loved it; i still love it, even if i don't have to actually go back to work any time soon. but that's a different story. anyway when i was traveling with the team post uni, i met the most amazing woman. her name was thim, and she was honestly the most beautiful thing i had ever laid eyes on. she lived in thailand and spoke very little english, but we managed to communicate well enough. she was wonderful. deeply intelligent and caring, thoughtful. desperate to see the world outside of her country. we were married within a few months of running into one another, which i guess was a big mistake, but i've always had sort of a spontaneous streak. besides, the way i saw it, we weren't going to be any more or less in love if we waited another year. what was the harm? i took her back to australia with me where we settled down for a bit. i resigned to just writing articles or selling my other pictures for national geographic so that i could stay home with my wife. five months after we were married, we found out she was pregnant. and nine months following that, she gave birth to the most beautiful baby girl i have ever seen. as beautiful as her mama, our little rosemary. and from there, life just got....perfect. a few years later and ada met this guy who actually got her to act like a normal human being for once, little janie graduated from high school and started her university career, and i was still living with my beautiful wife and beautiful daughter. life was....it was perfect. then adaline left. and janie sort of fell apart. and thim left me. not all close together of course. ada left and a few months after janie cracked without her sister. and then it was just recently that thim and i finalized our divorce. it's hard to really say where we went wrong. maybe it was that i was itching to go off somewhere again and i told her so. maybe it was the douche bag that worked with her at the store. i don't know. i just know that we were growing apart. she was spending most of her time working 'extra' hours at the store and i was spending mine with rosemary, helping her to grow up. i hardly even paid attention to thim. to be honest, i don't think we often slept in the same bed. i was heartbroken of course when we got divorced but i can't say that it's too...horrible. the worse part about it was that i lost rosemary. thim got to keep her and i had to sort out a fucking custody agreement. that got to me. otherwise, though, i didn't really feel...anything. the only thing on my mind was that now i could go back to doing my job. and i did - for a while. then i had to return back home and it was like a punch in the gut. ada wasn't there so it wasn't like i had anyone to unwind with. janie was still trying to suffer her way through uni without breaking into random tears. and mum and dad hadn't ever liked thim in the first place and that just made things worse. and then i realized that i needed a permanent house base somewhere else. that was when i started working toward gaining american citizenship. and now? well now i've gone back to just writing articles. i'll assist a team one more time to do a story about the different cultures of new york city and how they manage to survive and thrive in such a large city and then....then i guess i'm just going to settle down with ada and her roommate. try to find my own place. and just....start again. write what they tell me to. photograph what i can. i'm just looking for a new start. something completely unfamiliar. and who knows? maybe america will grow on me like it did for adaline. PERSONALITY, as i said before, i'm a guy who's pretty...spontaneous. haha. for lack of better word. i'm adventurous and i guess a little 'quirky'. that's what ada always used to tell her friends. "oh don't mind luke; he's a little....quirky." i guess it's because i am someone who acts on impulse and oftentimes my actions seem random or don't make sense. i'll be sitting down reading a book one moment and the next i'll be jumping up and heading out the door demanding that someone come with me because it is positively essential that we go and find some fireworks and we find them now because somehow i got the idea of attaching things to them and setting them off over the pond in our backyard. true story. it was pretty wicked. then again anything involving fireworks is a little wicked for a fifteen year old boy. man that was half my life ago... but there i go, getting off topic. i do that, too. i guess i do a lot of thinking only my thought process doesn't work well in my head. all my thoughts get jumbled and jostled around and it's hard to make sense of anything. so oftentimes, i just say whatever i'm thinking in order to straighten them out. it's not like i'm one of those dickheads who just says the rude shit on their mind, though. my thoughts are rarely rude - i'm too happy a guy for that. it's more that i have the tendency to embarrass myself by saying, "my god you're pretty," or "sorry i was busy staring at your legs, what was that?" which i guess some people might find a little patronizing or rude but at least i'm being honest. i'm not trying to objectify people; i'm not. just sometimes these things pop out. i just say what most people...hold in. the embarrassing stuff. more embarrassing me to me than you, don't worry. needless to say, though, i'm not very good at keeping secrets. so i usually direct all people with secrets to someone else because it's just common knowledge that i can't keep my god damn mouth shut. other than that, though, i like to think that i'm a really good guy. very happy. a little out-there. and recently i've been trying to cover up disappointment with a bit of alcohol and a lot of good friends but hey, i'll get over it. divorces happen. i'm surprised she and i lasted as long as we did. i just wish i could have kept rose with me. APPEARANCE, well i've never been big on fashion. honestly, practicality beats out anything else in my books. when you travel as much as i do, you just sort of stop thinking about fashion and start worrying about what's going to keep you warm or cool or what's the best thing to wear while hiking or climbing or whatever. you start paying attention to climates and dressing accordingly. sometimes the outfits aren't attractive. it happens. honestly i'm much happier not thinking about it. of course now that i've come back here the first thing my sister's gay little roommate said was that bad fashion must run in the family. which is a little insulting but i guess true. i've gotten a little better through the years because of tips i've gotten from other people in the places that i've been about what's the popular style in their country, but mainly, i just wear whatever's around that's practical for the weather. lots of jeans or shorts, running shoes, heavy jackets, t-shirts. all simple. all practical. THE ROLEPLAYER, hi i'm still renee and i PINKY PROMISE that i'm done now alksjdfla;dfak. |
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