Once again I was forced to work while others got to benefit from the sham which is Columbus Day. Having all the legitimacy of Festivus (Seinfeld fans got that one), Columbus Day keeps hanging on like the last dinosaur with only a select few getting the day off. Among those is likely the staff of the state office of vital records which took a whole month to cross out the word female and write in male on my birth certificate (see last week’s column about my sex change).