Wow this is crazy! thanks for the advice Brad. I got to googling, and found this link:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread....art=0&tstart=0
Apparently someone picked up their AlumMBP and it bent. So just now, I've been pushing and working this thing, and it is now basically healed. You'd almost never see it except for a slight stress mark directly above the column between ethernet and firewire. Crazy! I'm not so sure it was my longboarding that I have to blame about this, but either way--moral of the story I guess, don't pick up the MBP's on the left side
Over and out!