Thank you all very much!
After 36 hours of continuous barbecue party... I'm unbelievably full, tired, and sunburnt.
Whoever it was that thought to have the surgery department party on the weekend of the fourth, the weekend of my birthday, and in the middle of the friggin' Phoenix summer is a nut case.
I'm starting a petition to officially omit "summer" from the calendar here. I propose to delete the months of June, July and August from the calendar so that September follows directly behind May. So far, my informal poll has met with unanimous agreement. However, everyone I talked to is a major NFL fan too... I avoided the baseball enthusiasts in my initial query.