I've been in a temporary office with a temporary light solution since my promotion in July.  After much reorganization, I've finally moved into my permanent office with mixed lighting reviews as they have gotten a little more strict about light customizations. 
 
Maintenance should be installing sleeves over the fluorescent bulbs in my office to help cut down on the light.  I'm not sure how it's going to work, but I'm willing to try it.  In the meantime, I have been working with the lights turned off.  The only lighting I have used is the natural light which I did not have before in my temporary office.  I have to say, natural light does make a big difference except when the sun shines directly into the window which is not until very late in the day. 
 
I haven't figured out what to do when the beast hits at work yet.  He was visiting last Thursday and Friday.  This is where windows aren't so nice and the office was too bright even with the lights out and it didn't matter that it was cloudy and raining out.  I've always been able to fight them off at work for the most part, but I can tell it's going to be more challenging now in my new environment even if I pull the shades down on the window.  I also have an inside window which doesn't have a shade and is at the end of an aisle and has cubes around where I can't really get away even in my own office to try to calm my head down without feeling like I'm in a fish bowl. 

I did put down the outside shades on Friday, but then I noticed all of these funny looks and head/neck contortions as people walked by my office and looked in through the inside window.  Others have been making comments about me always sitting in the dark and reminding them of a vampire even when the outside window shades are up. 

My temporary office was on a bottom floor away from everyone where I generally went unnoticed.  I am now on the highest floor and at the end of an aisle.  The floor also shakes whenever anyone walks by which doesn't help when the beast comes by for a visit either.  Although my old office lighting may sound glorious, I was always working in my shadows which was causing other problems before I moved offices.
 
I am hoping the sleeves will work, but I guess I have my doubts about them.  Does anyone have any experience with fluorescent light sleeves? 

When some people are in my office for a meeting, I have to turn the lights on so they can see.  I had people in my office on Thursday where the lights needed to be in their blaring glory.  I think that's why the beast started on Thursday and continued on Friday, but we don't have the sleeves in yet either.
 
I know I am lucky my company is working with me about my lighting issues.  I really do appreciate everything they are doing and trying to do to accommodate me.  I'm not sure what we can try after if the sleeves don't work.  The lights are open and not covered at all.  This is how they are throughout the building so many times I have to limit the time I am outside of my office too.