in-ness, out-ness, head-ness

Thom·as (tms), Saint

One of the 12 Apostles. According to the New Testament, he doubted that Jesus had risen from the dead until he saw the wounds.

head (hd)

n.

1.

a. The uppermost or forwardmost part of the body of a vertebrate, containing the brain and the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and jaws.

b. The analogous part of an invertebrate organism.

c. The length or height of such a part: The horse lost by a head. She is two heads taller than he is.

2. The seat of the faculty of reason; intelligence, intellect, or mind: I did the figuring in my head.

3. Mental ability or aptitude: She has a good head for mathematics.

4. Freedom of choice or action: Give the child his head and see how well he solves the problems.

5. Slang

a. A habitual drug user. Often used in combination: a dopehead.

b. An enthusiast. Often used in combination: a chilihead.

6. A person considered foolish or contemptible. Often used in combination: a chowderhead.

7. A portrait or representation of a person's head.

8. (used with a sing. verb) The side of a coin having the principal design, often of the head of a famous person, and the date. Often used in the plural with a singular verb.

9. Informal A headache: had a bad head early this morning.

10.

a. An individual; a person: charged five dollars a head.

b. pl. head A single animal: 20 head of cattle.

11.

a. A person who leads, rules, or is in charge; a leader, chief, or director: the head of the corporation.

b. A headmaster or headmistress.

12. The foremost or leading position: marched at the head of the parade.

13. A headwaiter.

14.

a. The difference in depth of a liquid at two given points.

b. Abbr. hd. The measure of pressure at the lower point expressed in terms of this difference.

c. The pressure exerted by a liquid or gas: a head of steam.

d. The liquid or gas exerting the pressure.

15. The froth or foam that rises to the top in pouring an effervescent liquid, such as beer.

16. The tip of an abscess, boil, or pimple, in which pus forms.

17. A turning point; a crisis: bring matters to a head. See Synonyms at crisis.

18.

a. A projection, weight, or fixture at the end of an elongated object: the head of a pin; a head of land overlooking the harbor.

b. The working end of a tool or implement: the head of a hammer.

c. The part of an explosive device that carries the explosive; a warhead.

d. The part of a stringed instrument where the strings are wound; a tuning head.

e. A tuning machine.

19. Anatomy

a. The rounded proximal end of a long bone: the head of the femur.

b. The end of a muscle that is attached to the less movable part of the skeleton.

20.

a. An attachment to or part of a machine that holds or contains the operative device.

b. The magnetic head of a tape recorder or VCR.

c. The device in a magnetic disk or tape drive that enables it to read data from and write data to the disk or tape.

21. A rounded compact mass, as of leaves or buds: a head of cabbage.

22. Botany A flower head.

23. The uppermost part; the top: Place the appropriate name at the head of each column.

24. The end considered the most important: sat at the head of the table.

25. Either end of an object, such as a drum, whose two ends are interchangeable.

26. Nautical

a. The forward part of a vessel.

b. The top part or upper edge of a sail.

27. A toilet, especially on a ship.

28. A passage or gallery in a coal mine.

29. Abbr. hd. Printing

a. The top of a book or page.

b. A headline or heading.

c. A distinct topic or category: under the head of recent Spanish history.

30. Headway; progress.

31. Linguistics The word in a construction that has the same grammatical function as the construction as a whole and that determines relationships of concord to other parts of the construction or sentence in which the construction occurs.

32. Vulgar Slang Oral sex.

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or intended for the head. Often used in combination: headshaking; headwrap.

2. Foremost in rank or importance: the head librarian.

3. Placed at the top or the front: the head name on the list.

4. Slang Of, relating to, or for drugs or drug users.

v. head·ed, head·ing, heads

v.tr.

1. To be in charge of; lead: The minister headed the committee.

2. To be in the first or foremost position of: Collins heads the list of job candidates.

3. To aim, point, or turn in a certain direction: headed the team of horses up the hill.

4. To remove the head or top of.

5. Sports To hit (a soccer ball) in the air with one's head.

6. To provide with a head: head each column with a number; headed the flagpole with a golden ball.

v.intr.

1. To proceed or go in a certain direction: head for town.

2. To form a head, as lettuce or cabbage.

3. To originate, as a stream or river; rise.

Phrasal Verb:

head off

To block the progress or completion of; intercept: Try to head him off before he gets home. The town headed off the attempt to build another mall.

Idioms:

have a big/swelled head

To be overly self-confident or conceited.

head and shoulders above

Far superior to: head and shoulders above her colleagues in analytical capability.

head over heels

1. Rolling, as in a somersault: tripped and fell head over heels.

2. Completely; hopelessly: head over heels in love.

keep (one's) head

To remain calm; remain in control of oneself.

lose (one's) head

To lose one's poise or self-control.

off/out of (one's) head

Insane; crazy.

on (one's) head

As one's responsibility or fault: If this project fails, it's on your head.

over (one's) head

1. Beyond one's comprehension.

2. Beyond one's financial means.

put heads together

To consult and plan together: Let's put our heads together and solve this problem.

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[Middle English, from Old English hafod; see kaput- in Indo-European roots.]

things we do for love

Our story begins with a night of drinking, dancing and karaoke at Jake's, our local gay disco in Olympia. Their is a big group of us. We are all having a great time. Thomas does as he does and starts dancing/hitting on my Mother. This innocent act starts as, more or less, a joke in his mind. Though further dancing and drinking lead Thomas to believe he "really has a chance with her". He starts saying things like "I think you're really pretty" and "I sure am having a good time with you tonight, Cindi". At one point, Head even asks for advice from a patron in the bathroom, telling him the situation and asking what he thinks of it. Our local 'Dan Savage' tells Head that it is completely ethical as long as he talks with me first. It was later revealed that this advice was unnecessary. Unfortunately for Thomas, fortunately for the universe, he is shot down by my Mother. Turns out that my Mother has no interest outside of having a good time with her son and company for the night. In Thomas' defense, my mother had a boyfriend at the time.

Crushed but, not defeated our protagonist finds another lady that half-accepts his advances of romancing on the dance floor. This lady also happens to have the old-enough-to-be-Todd's-Mom flare about her. All is well for Thomas until lady starts dancing with another young male. At one point, "May I cut in", Thomas asks. "No" or some deviation thereof is uttered by lady. Head's natural reaction, understandably, is to smash a drink glass on the floor.

As the music ends for the night so does all of Thomas' aspirations of hooking up with an older, more established lady. With his head held high, Thomas yells at his male defeater "dont be surprised if you find a dick in her pants" as they walk out the door.

“Now I'm never going to get the smell of dairy product out of my new sheets.”

Three-thirty in the morning the phone rings. Drowsily grab it and blink at the flashing screen: Thomas. Ignore. Two seconds later, rings again.

“What?” (Exasperated).

“Can I come sleep on your couch? Todd and Ryan are being dicks. “

“Fine.”

Click.

Ten minutes later Head arrives, looking bedraggled and clearly traumatized.

“Todd and Ryan are drunk. I was reading in bed and they came into my room both naked, sprayed me with whipped cream and meatspun me.” (Meatspin: http://www.meatspin.com/)

The icing on the cake? A dollop of whipped cream still lodged in left Head’s ear.

Thomas as the Aristocrat

"I think twilight has made reading cool"

"I kind of have a policy about friending people i don't know"

"You are so special - in the LOST kind of way - anytime - come to us..."
- Susan Genoni

"maybe I'm petty, but it really bothers me when people us the term "constellation prize.""

"whoawhoa Inland Empire is on Netflix Instant watch. I'm going for broke yall"

"I was livin at the taco bell and workin at the pizza hut... then i lucked into this deal."

"Ohhhhhhhh, Chicken!"

"I'm coming out!!!! And it feels fabuuuuuuulllllloooooouuuuuussssss!"

French Toast:- fried bread dipped in egg batter

As the title would suggest, this Headian story is derived from a breakfast encounter, from the Head backlog.

We all know, Thomas likes food. Whether it is cooked, uncooked, marinated, or not. We also know that he does not have the most refined pallet. The french toast of object was cooked and waiting in the oven for all to enjoy. There also happened to be two pieces of unbattered, unfried bread sitting on the counter. Thomas picks up the raw bread, dusts it with powdered sugar and pours maple syrup on it. About half way through his gesticulation he says "I dont think this is French Toast". It wasn't.

Oh, after his flub he also tried to backtrack by cooking his half eaten french toast in the oven, "no, Thomas, you gotta fry it", and then he tried frying it in my bacon pan, "Thomas, I thought you were a vegetarian". Poor Tom Tom.

Keep your car turned off when you leave the state.

Today, I received a phone call from my roommate Jamie Macquerrie who tells me that there is a police officer at our house. Officer Sanford is asking if we know someone who owns a Nissan Sentra. The police have traced a black Nissan Sentra that has been left running with the driver door open, parked by the Baskin Robbins. Do I know to whom this car belongs?
Yes, it belongs to Head. Was the car stolen? Had something awful happened to Head?
No, he dropped his car off there to hop in his coworker's car to drive down to Oregon. A lady had seen a man get out of the car 45 minutes before she called the cops, and then Officer Sanford headed to our house, the address on Head's car registration. When I picked up his car, there were two cop cars parked nearby and several officers standing around the car. By now, Head was already in Oregon.
Is it Thomas' fault that he left the car running? No, he can't be held responsible for cars running and doors left open when he is thinking about the Principles by Which Dogs Live. How can you blame a man for his high-mindedness? There just isn't any room in his brain for anything but Great Questions of Life.