once volunteered to watch over an overnight exam study hall. after 2 a.m. there was no one there. just me, the fluorescent lighting and the volume of Jacques Derrida I had brought with me. it was hell.
Flourecent Lights suck, for some reason both my G/F and I get horrible fucking headaches when we are under them. So both of us have forsaken rooms lightened by flourecent lights. They suck.
there is an alternative to fluorescent, John Ott invented them while animating plant growth for a Disney movie. (Fantasia?) It's called the Ott bulb, the ones shaped like fluorescent bulbs he also creates called Full-spectrum lighting. very interesting. The man responsible for that damn infernal fluorescent event is: A person of German heritage whose name I can't find in the files right now.