Okay. Obviously you were not getting the point about the whole hippie thing. I do not think you are a hippie, nor am i accusing you of being one, or ever being one, nor have i actually ever accused you of being a hippie. The point is, anybody can accuse anybody of being anything without having an actually basis for that accusation.
As for the accusation that i am BECOMING a yuppie, i would argue that point as well. Being in a large major university does not mean you are going to be, or striving to be, a yuppie. Before yuppies were around, people were going to large universities. Teachers go to universities, doctors go to universities, politicians go to universities, housewives go to universities...none of these professions are overrun by yuppies. Yuppies is category in which you strive to make money to make money. It isn't for spending cash per se...though that can be a factor.
By driving a nice car...there are two points to consider. First...who doesn't? I have yet to meet an individual who purposefully goes out to choose the lowest piece of shit car out there. You certainly didn't go out to get a 1981 Oldsmobile, did you jimmy? People all over search for a nice car because nice cars equal dependability. Dependability means you don't have to put oil in your car every five minutess. Secondly, think about why i would want to drive a nice car. It isn't so much for the nice-ness as for the fact that any car would have run better than the Oldsmobile. Think back...do you remember how much i liked the Trooper because it was far more dependable. It wasn't exactly a gem, but i liked driving it because it was far more DEPENDABLE.
I don't want to live in a big city. I would much rather live nearby something with landscape, not skyscrapers. In fact, you should know by far that i much prefer going to places away from cities. When it came to deciding where to spend time, i usually choose hanging out at fort lewis then going up to Seattle.
As for my profession...you have to realize that being a psychologist entitles more than being in a plush office sitting on a chair and listening to people moan about their problems. Granted that many yuppie-types probably look at psychology for purely that reason, but there are far more fields of psychology than that. In truth, the likely course i will take with psych will either be developmental, educational, child psychology, social psychology, or research-based psychology. In fact, in all of those listed fields, i am planning on incorporating research methods. I am really disenchanted with most clinical practices. While getting a Ph.D or Psy.D will allow me to obtain a practicing license, i will probably not use it until i am middle aged or older, if ever.
My apologies for my error though, when i said that james didn't vote for any major parties. I thought he said that he voted for Nader. I was wrong on that. Still, it was not exactly a true point i was making. That was more of a half-hearted, "see, i can bring up things that make people seem like something".
As to the "I want to get a job for spending money" statement. Whether you know this or not james, both jimmy, justin, and i originally were trying to get a job to take a road trip, or really long journey if you must, to Las Vegas or Texas. It never really materialized because jimmy got a job waaay before justin and i, and we never got the funds and time around to go. After that, it was a matter of paying to go to Pierce College. And didn't you post earlier about wanted to get a job, or needing to?
James, your statement about if i had rich parents, and a free ride to college, that i would become a yuppie as well. Maybe, maybe not. One, that will never be fully known. Even if it were, under those same circumstances, so would you. So would jimmy, so would zach, so would alfred hitchcock. What is your point? Calling me a "wuppie" because i might be a yuppie if i had those factors is erroneous because so would the rest of the population, as you stated yourself. If it were a conscious choice, i guarantee you that i would most certainly NOT want to be a yuppie. They are far too disenfranchised from the world, and far too materialistic for me to even stand. That and i can't stand those little beady cat-type glasses that they were. Oh, and i don't like lattes.
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