NX

There are 2 kinds of NXs in the R-me.

The first is the End-Ex, which everyone loves. End of exercise.

The other is the annex…

Annexes are fine, as long as they stay within their limits. Annexes should at most go up till Annex X… why else would they be called NXs if they didn’t eNd at X ?

And I used to think annexes were fun to include. “For details, refer to Annex B” etc… makes a report sound professional, even if Annex B turns out to contain only one line, or one table…

But after 2 sundays of booking in early, 3 nights of staying in my office late (twice till 1.30am and once till 5 plus in the morning!!!) and a 5cm stack of waste paper, in order to produce a 20 page document with an Annex Z (! some of the annexes even have appendices!!!), 50+ slides and a stack of references thicker than the original document itself (annexes included), I have only one thing left to say.

I’ve got annex to grind…