Character Study Steve Baker in The Good Wife

Steve Baker

My wife, Barbara, has a friend named Audrey who sells candles using a ladies’ day get together as a means.  They have a theme for the month.  She, Audrey, was called away at the last moment and my wife agreed to host the party at our house in her place.  Barbara is enthused about the candles and likes them so she didn’t want a month to go by without the party being held.

I have to get ready to go out to meet some friends of mine and this candle party is kind of getting in the way of that.  My friends expect me to be impeccably attired when we meet  They accept me no matter how I dress, although they can be quite critical if what I’m wearing isn’t up to par or, worse, doesn’t match in color or style to what they think.

I discovered an affinity for women’s’ clothes a few years back.  At first I wore silky underwear and that became more and more feminine as I became more comfortable with the notion of wearing it until, finally, I have a full array of women’s clothes that look pretty good on me, even if I say so myself.  A further advantage is that I can wear many of Barbara’s clothes.

Barbara has a more difficult time with it than she lets on.  She found out about my proclivity about a year ago when I was trying on a pair of her panty hose and she accidentally saw me in them.  I admitted my situation to her and asked that she not be too awfully critical of me but try to understand and work with me to keep it in the mix and not let it overwhelm either of us.  She agreed.

There has been a lot of family therapy since then.  We have two daughters, one grown and on her own and the other at Wellesley College in her second year.  Both of them are have expressed little or no concern about me; the younger one even supports me in my cross dressing.  She refers to me as Mom.

To further complicate the situation, I am an accountant for one of the more prestigious firms in the city.  I have a low profile in that I don’t do a lot of client relationship kinds of things but do more of the “grunt” work behind the scenes to keep companies in favorable tax situations.  My recommendation are usually made to the client by one of the partners so there is little or no public exposure for me.  This plays nicely into my situation.

I did some research on the internet about cross dressing and the best explanation  I have follows:

“Russell O’Connor has always felt trapped between male and female, but he finds freedom in dressing as a woman.

What follows can be found on: http://www.rolereboot.org/life/details/2013-02-living-between-male-and-female 

The Door Way to Paradise (Haiku)

What's up about life?
Alcohol, weed, and opioides.
Looking for a door?

In the here and now
Is it all too much to bear
That we seek escape?

Walking the tight rope
Is more the analogy
Flirting with danger.

Going there and back
To the wilderness outside
A journey to hell.

Hunting the dragon.
Sometimes we slay the dragon,
Sometimes we get slain.

Going Out Now

I look at her, lying in her bed.
There's no discernible cause for alarm.

Blood sugar controlled,
Blood pressure in the normal to high range.
Respiration rate and oxygen levels enviable,
No indication of an illness.

Loved ones calling and caring.
Nurses and doctors doing their best..

Defiant, stubborn, to the end.
She can't say it but it becomes clear.
Is there a reason for going on?
I've known her a long time.

Dementia, her family suffers from it.
It is beginning now.

And she may not want to stay for it.

How You Dress (Haiku)

Dressing to incite
Then decrying the result
Just doesn't seem fair

A Helping Hand

I'd like to help you out;
Which way did you come in.
--Anonymous

I'm Smart (Haiku)

A fountain of knowledge
Spouting facts and opinions
Proving it ... to me.

Character Study: Professor Plum in Clue, The Musical

I am Robert E. Peabody, also known as Professor Plum.  I was born on March 27, 1959 in Springfield Massachusetts.  My parents were rather well to do and I had what could be considered to be a privileged childhood.  I attended parochial school, an all-boys catholic high school, Boston College to work on my BA but with difficulty I finished it at Springfield College, a local teachers college.

Upon graduation I went to work for the Springfield Mass school system at the Alfred E. Glickman elementary school where I taught 7th Grade.

After seven frustrating years of working with pubescent teenagers, I switched to teaching Composition and Rhetoric at the senior level at Commerce High school.

I had the dream of becoming the principal of a school and worked towards that through extracurricular activities in the community.  I became friends with the Chairperson of Academy Hill High School and she saw to it that I was hired there, then helped me advance to a position of prominence in the school.

When my parents died they left me a considerable inheritance and I bought my way into the school and persuaded my patron and her colleagues to make me the headmaster.

In carrying out my fundraising obligations to keep the school afloat, I was introduced to the CEO of an oil company, both she and the company will be nameless here for privacy reasons, and we became lovers.

She saw to it that there were donations made to the school from the company and it was a quite cozy relationship.

Then about five years ago along came Mr. Boddy and, through loathsome chicanery, he drove down the stock price of the patron company, caused my CEO paramour to get fired and the donations to my school were stopped.

Needless to say, the school fell upon hard times, I lost a lot of money and prestige as a result and harbor much ill will towards Mr. Boddy.

I was introduced to Mr. Boddy as a certain Professor Plum; he hired me to write a book for him about the government involvement in the oil industry.  He wasn't too careful about checking my credentials and, since I am quite adept at writing in English, the ruse was successful.

He agreed to pay me handsomely for my efforts but never did.

My objective here at Boddy Manor is to kill Mr. Boddy with the monckey wrench, because he threw a monckey wrench into my life, in the study since that's my line of work.

Some other interesting facts about me:

1. I am not and have never been married

2. I enjoy the company of a variety of women, especially strong and powerful women

3. I am always on the prowl for new conquests

4. I have had a few longer term relationships, the most recent being the CEO of the patron company

5.  I am rather taken by me

There are other guests here at Boddy Manor and I suspect that they will be getting in my way as I go about achieving my objective.

As the action starts, I am in the study reading a book.  I hear and see the other guests, introduce myself and listen to their introductions.

I see that I will have to be interacting with them throughout the events of the evening as I attempt to achieve my main objective of killing Mr. Boddy.