wherein Liz complains about editing and ponders a schedule shift

[edenfalling]

I need to finish editing "Second Chances" but I am really not in an editing mood tonight (it is a very specific mood, even more so than writing), so blargh.

I am starting to think I may have to try getting up an hour earlier in the mornings and going to bed at, like, 10pm, because I am generally awake enough to focus in the morning but I have no time, whereas when I get home from work I have a few hours to spend on whatever, but am too worn out/spoonless to do much besides vegetate for most of that time.

(I write at work sometimes, but it's hard to properly sink into a creative mindset when I might get interrupted by the telephone or clients/tenants at any moment, not to mention I have an intense squick about people reading over my shoulders when I'm doing creative stuff on a computer. Also I don't have access to the majority of my files, which is a problem. (And no, don't say Google docs. At the rental office I can't access my own Google account because I have to stay logged into the office's own supplemental Gmail account, and at Not the IRS I can't access Gdocs because it's on their blocked site list. (Which includes LJ and Tumblr, but not DW or AO3, and I hope they never cut off those particular escape valves.)))

...Actually, on that note, I should go to bed. *wry*

(How on earth am I slowly ending up with a morning person's life schedule? I mean, I can do that if I need to -- and it really looks like I might need to -- because I am fortunate enough to have relatively malleable circadian rhythms, but left to my own devices I am a night owl and I resent the way the world seems to be conspiring against my preferences.)

Comments

[justicevoles.livejournal.com]

You can't just sign into your personal gmail account in a different browser? That's what I do at work, company gmail in Chrome, personal gmail in Firefox.

Or are you in one of those offices that *shudder* only have/permit/use IE?

[edenfalling]

Company email in Chrome, the other browser is either IE or fucking MS Edge (I forget which since I never use it), and I don't have admin permissions to install Firefox. *makes face*

[autumnia]

If you're using Chrome, you can go to File and choose "New Incognito Window" -- that should allow you to open Gmail and you can sign into your own account while keeping your company email open in the regular window. I use Incognito mode a lot for work, when I have to test the same website but with different logins and user states.

ETA: You can try testing this at home before you do it in the office if you want to make sure you don't lose any important information or settings. :-)

[edenfalling]

Oooh. Now there is an idea.

I will test it tomorrow and see if it pans out.

(The other problem with the rental office is that my computer's internet connection is weirdly sluggish and also freezes up for ten seconds to a minute at random intervals -- more frequently the more tabs I have open and the more image-heavy the sites in those tabs -- which makes trying to write stuff online frustrating... but if I could load something onto Gdocs at home and copy it into Word at work until I load the day's progress back into Gdocs for transport, that might be a decent workaround. I mean, I could also probably email attachments to myself, but I don't like to clog up the download history, you know?)