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I will be discussing my kitchen since it is where I spend most of my time. Cooking, browsing, cleaning. I'll analyze the items in my fridge, cupboard. I'll talk about the character it seems to have: of warmth, of comfort, of conversation. How every party seems to inevitably gather there: to eat, socialize, take shots, smoke, drink coffee. If one person's cooking, everyone else is picking at the ingredients. For me, the kitchen has always been my favorite place in a house, it reminds me of family, peanut brittle and whiskey all at the same time- all of which are warm and inviting. To Do: Get out the Bonbons Sit on the Freezer Describe.

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Reply to Th Kitchen --LauraLindsey?, Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:08:25 -0500 reply
I really liked this post. I liked the stories that you told associated with the different parts of the kitchen. I would suggest adding more detail about the various items in your kitchen. You do a good job of describing those you do mention but only a select few are mentioned. To make the organization a bit more clear, I would suggest moving the sections from more important to less important, small to large, or some other order. Each section is organized well, but I don't understand the organization of the different sections in relation to each other. I would also suggest including more detail about your relationship to the space and how you fit into it. You talk extensively about how your cat, roomate, boyfriend and others use and value the kitchen, but less about yourself. The images that this post brings to my mind include those of me standing over the stove trying new recipes wondering if they will turn out well. I could easily relate to the stories you told about your bf and you testing different recipes and hanging the on the fridge, etc.

Foodies will love it! --jgriffi9, Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:05:30 -0500 reply
Your response captures the feeling of a kitchen, and how it is a warm and social atmosphere. I love your decriptions of how your cat interacts with the space. But my favorite detail would have to be your list of verbs that describe cooking in the last paragraph. I love your organization, but you may want to include more of how you personally interact with the space in more detail. It seems like you are moving from specific to general in your essay (from a small, focused picture to the bigger picture) so you might want to start your essay with your own feelings on the space, to keep this flow, if you choose to include them. Well done!

Reply --mgianola, Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:20:56 -0500 reply
It is overall very good and makes me wish I had a kitchen and an herb garden that nice. It is very detailed, especially the objects inside and around the fridge and the recipe you and your boyfriend made up. I would say maybe a little more could be detailed about what you think of when you see these things. Do they have a meaning or do they bring up memories? The organization is very good. The whole thing flows very from from paragraph to paragraph. The transition from one thing to another is also good, not harsh at all. And the end ties in well with the beginning bringing to a nice end. As I read this I reminisce about my own grandmother's kitchen, because I am a horrible cook and thinking of my own kitchen gives me a headache. I llive off of frozen food and take-out. By the way..nice choice of menus! :)

Comments by Julia Frye --jfrye, Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:21:27 -0500 reply
I liked this post, it gives me a real feel for your kithen and what happens within it. I would like a little more detail of what else is in your kitchen, because I am sure it is not just a fridge in a room. Where is the fridge located in the room, do you have a table, sink cabnets, pantry any random things throughout the kitchen? I liked how you kept to the topic of food throughout the whole passage and you flowed nicely from each subject to the next. Maybe add a little more detail, the stories add a nice touch and make it more you, I like that. You reflect throughout the whole entry and it really adds charater to the kitchen, it makes me think of my kitchen and how it seems to be the gathering spot in my own home as well. People seem to feel most comfortable haning out where the food and drink is readily available.

Response --primowvu, Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:28:48 -0500 reply
First I love the cats name. I would expand on more of the cats toys. The list of endless stuff in your fridge is great it adds a lot of charater to the writing. The orginization is good but I would expand on the size of the space more I wasn't sure how big it actually was. It seems for the most part you were writing from different parts of the kitchen. The discription of the unlevel floor is great, any Morgantown house owner can relate to rises in the ground and unlevel floors.

Writing Space #1- The Kitchen --sbaldwin, Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:55:12 -0500 reply
Katie: A great start. I like the sense of the interplay between the build structure of the house and your decorative additions.

"Dips and hills of the linoleum." Evocative detail, but also a sense of the age of this house.

The fridge magnets are fascinating. You took them - took them? - from people on a whim. So they're a kind of reflection of your friends, of your preferences, of impulse. What are they images of? What do they look like? How are they organized?

The list of food is great. You could easily link your pages off of that - take as many food items as you can to present memories, observations, even recipes. Same with all the activities you do in the kitchen.

I think there could be a bit more you in this - but this would be the links. I imagine other stories and observations building off these specific details.

Fuzzy Nutz is a great name for a cat.

Response to 2/14 --rsaffel, Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:14:47 -0500 reply
I like the format of this page very much. It is sort of a slide show that is linked through each page. The one drawback is that for each page to make sense you have to read and pay attention to every detail. They are very small general writings and they connect at a certain level, but the connection is not always so obviously noticed. But like I said, neat way to put it together. Much more creative than most spaces I have viewed.

response --sbaldwin, Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:32:15 -0500 reply
Katie:

Great start. I really like the way you’ve cleaned it up and organized it. The linear path is effective – you control our experience and underline certain aspects; the more web-like hypertext tends to make the reader spin out in different directions.

You do an effective job working between the image of fuzzy nutz and your kitchen, on the one hand, and ruminations on Morgantown – and to some degree on storytelling and thinking. I think you can be even more imagistic/meditative. Treat this as a creative piece and each node as a poem? Or artwork?

You may want to add lateral links (between nodes) in addition to the linear path – or you can leave it… I did seem to get stuck – I know you have nodes on cooking/baking etc. but I didn’t seem to arrive at those following the linear stream.

They are fancy pants on fuzzy nutz.

you rock --kkline, Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:24:05 -0500 reply
i totally dig your cat. fancy pants for real. anyway, i know you, call me sometime. keep up th sweet website and maybe put some skateboarding pictures on there or like, give me five dollars. oh yeah, about the site...let's see, i like the slide shows very much, they are entertaining with the music and what not, very well indeed. -not katie, but her boyfriend on her computer. she has a cat thing....

... --LauraLindsey?, Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:37:59 -0500 reply
Your space is so unique and different from anyone else's. I love the way you set it up and the analogies you use (stream of consciousness, caught down stream, life saver, etc.) It is so creative and fun to read. I especially enjoyed the nodes about fuzzy nuts...he's awesome. Keywords: unique, creative, distinct, personal

in class responding --ahamilt4, Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:39:44 -0500 reply
I think your page is the most interesting one I have visited so far. First, it was really funny and made me laugh which is something the other pages didn't (at least not intentionally). Second, I REALLY liked how the pictures served as the links to the next page and how after going through each sub link they took me back to the starting page without me having to press back a thousand times.

The pictures are all very interesting and add to the pages well, and are especially useful because they serve as link to each page. I can tell you worked very hard on you space and I am very impressed!

response from Sandy --sbaldwin, Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:08:04 -0400 reply
Katie:

Well, this is looking great. Good job.

I love the playful organization. You help the reader out - we always know where we are.

The organizing metaphor is both the stream (or tree) and your house. So, house as stream-like and organic. This works really well organizationally. Now, what if we think of this as an experience or a story for the reader: what is the story being conveyed? How does the organization and the contenst work together to tell a single story? Of course, it’s about you but what is it? And then: how can you enhance this? How can you write more to reflect on and explore this story?

The video on the reflections page didn’t load correctly for me. I took the liberty of editing the code – it works now and you might use that code for all your videos.

Check spelling. (It's spatula.)

You might move the comments to a separate page? For example, take them off the fuzzy nutz page.

You might consider adding more lateral links. We can proceed pretty much in a linear fashion or can jump to the "quick" page. Now, the quick page is mostly uncreated stubs or wiki pages that people can create. Is that what you wanted? or had you wanted to create all those pages?

Comment --DKrymowski?, Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:21:02 -0500 reply
I like you description the picture is a little blurry but it fits the specific funciton.

... --ahamilt4, Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:27:37 -0500 reply
I think it's really funny how you made it look like a dictionary definition!

... --ahamilt4, Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:28:44 -0500 reply
I also like how you tell where the name came from. I LOVE half baked as well as the squirrel master

... --LauraLindsey?, Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:33:31 -0500 reply
I love this node...very unique and exciting. You are very creative!!

... --LauraLindsey?, Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:34:17 -0500 reply
adorable...but I'm trying to envision what you did to snap this picture ;)

Comment --DKrymowski?, Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:25:34 -0500 reply
I like this page. I like how you are giving direction indirectly

... --ahamilt4, Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:34:10 -0500 reply
This is an amazing picture and definitely shows your creativity as well as the true life of the college student. This is my favorite node because it's sad but true what we eat due to lack of money.

... --ahamilt4, Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:32:22 -0500 reply
I like the picture, but you may be able to add a description of who did the drawing and why

Thanks --kkline, Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:27:10 -0500 reply
Thanks for the suggestion, I did the drawing when I first got him in '04. He's a fat tub now...and I have no idea why I decided to do it. I just like to do artsy fartsy stuff. Hope that helps!

... --ahamilt4, Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:35:47 -0500 reply
This picture and description is interesting because it adds a whole new aspect to your life.apartment that I haven't seen on any other page.

response from sandy --sbaldwin, Tue, 02 May 2006 00:21:07 -0400 reply
Katie: Well, this is great. The organization is super, with the different paths smartly worked out. The video and images are integrated parts of the whole. I suppose I might suggest you write more reflective material thinking about what all this says, but I think you've compensated for that with a whimsical and quite enjoyable text that presents just enough. I don't think you need to change anything. This is in the A range.