I just decided to join the INternational Dissertation WRIting MOnth as headed up by Dr. Brazen Hussy. I'm writing on my own dissertation right now, and need to get into writing rigour, and this seems like a good way to do it.

Now, a mathematics dissertation is by its essence different from many others, so I have decided not to pledge wordcounts. Instead, I shall take a page count on November 1st, and publish here, and then each day try to produce one more page of mathematicy content. This is probably a wildly foolish estimate which is certain to break down completely, but at least I have a star to shoot for.

Currently, the dissertation is on 21 pages. The empty skeleton dissertation counted 17 pages.

And of course, true to my own tendencies, I just spent about an hour trying to produce a pretty xypic diagram of the first few associahedra labeled with the appropriate planar trees.