'Dissertation'

I've just been re-reading the 'introduction' to my 'dissertation', and have come to the 'conclusion' that I am 'unable' to write anything without a copious amount of 'superfluous' quotation marks. I'm going to have to 'search and destroy' before I meet my 'supervisor'.

I've already met him once this term, but we had the awkward sort of encounter you get when you're surreptitiously writing your name on a sign-up sheet on someone's door and they suddenly open it to find you standing there halfway through an ascender, pen in hand and just a little too close for comfort.

You then feel compelled to explain the damn obvious -

'I was.. ah.. signing up.'

Which, in turn, means they have to acknowledge the damn obvious.

'..Yes..'