... all I did was read your text, not really HEAR you do anything! It's a silly art major thing a la Magritte and "This is not a pipe".
On a side note, I was thinking about how when you get out of school and come back to the states it is going to be an Xmas like you have never seen because of all the cool games and stuff that has been released since you entered your indentured servitude to Indiana Jones and the Queen Mother. So you get Xmas, and then you get to experience the world again for the first time!!!!