The beginning of the beginning
I’ve begun writing. Yay. As a tool in keeping me on track I’ve decided to start posting a quick summary of each day’s progress. It remains to be seen whether this will help me avoid procrastinating, or if it’s really just procrastination in disguise. 
New category (thesis) to organize all that.
So, the beginning of my dissertation:
Chapter 1:
Introduction
This sentence provides the very beginning of my dissertation. This second sentence continues the self-referential motif, which bodes ill for ultimate readability and style. This sentence pauses to wonder exactly what “ultimate readability” means, exactly, and whether any academic writing – especially a dissertation – really has more than a nodding acquaintance with “readability” anyway. This sentence – which is the fourth sentence of my dissertation – snarkily wonders whether the previous sentence realized it dropped in an extra “exactly,” and in commas at that. This fifth sentence scolds the previous sentence and, indeed, this whole paragraph, for needless frivolity which is highly inappropriate for a serious academic document such as a dissertation.
This sentence wishes to apologize to the reader for the poor impression that the first paragraph must have made. This sentence steps in to ask whether it is perhaps too forceful to say “must have made,” inasmuch as it presupposes detailed knowledge of the reader and the reader’s preferences. This sentence agrees, and respectfully suggests that the first sentence of this second paragraph reconsider such strong language. This sentence, which is really the first sentence of this paragraph in disguise, wishes to apologize to the reader for any offense that might inadvertently have been given by assuming that the sentence had any knowledge whatsoever of the reader. This paragraph concludes with a sentence that points out that this sentence, this paragraph, and even this dissertation has no idea of whether it will ever be read or not.
Well, that’s one page down, only about 119 to go…