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mariana24 
Uruguay
Local time: 04:10
Spanish
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Erzsébet Czopyk wrote: Lisa Roberts wrote:
Late at night, strangely. Mornings I'm useless. Dear Lisa, may I invite you into the team "Night Owls"?  Early morning I am trying to look as a human being, but without my morning coffee and before the second cigarette I am useless too. Practically I am not able to open my eyes or even talk
Am I invited Erzsébet? Early morning, even mid-morning and without a coffe and our "mate", one half of my single neuron is still trying to reach its other half...The peace, silence and the notion that the world's asleep -well, the region- do wonders to my brain. Also, there is the promise of a late morning...
Mariana
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I have been known to submit work at 3 am and clients have commented on it, but as it doesn't affect my work (on the contrary) I suppose they are just bemused by it. By doing most of my work in the morning and then late at night, I find I can often have a nap with my 17 old month baby in the afternoon and get to spend "quality time" with him during the day instead of sending him to nursery all day long. It really works for me... Oscar Wilde said "only dull people are brilliant at breakfast" and a... See more I have been known to submit work at 3 am and clients have commented on it, but as it doesn't affect my work (on the contrary) I suppose they are just bemused by it. By doing most of my work in the morning and then late at night, I find I can often have a nap with my 17 old month baby in the afternoon and get to spend "quality time" with him during the day instead of sending him to nursery all day long. It really works for me... Oscar Wilde said "only dull people are brilliant at breakfast" and although I would certainly never insult my early-rising colleagues by saying they are dull, I do sometimes find that friends and family jokingly imply that I am "lazy" because I hate early mornings, so I quote this to counter such comments! ▲ Collapse
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Claire Cox
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:10
French to English
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Erzsébet Czopyk wrote: Lisa Roberts wrote:
Late at night, strangely. Mornings I'm useless. Dear Lisa, may I invite you into the team "Night Owls"?
Me too - I cannot function in the morning. I need my shower, several cups of tea, sorting through my e-mails and a brisk walk with the dogs before I can get down to anything serious. If I have to finish an urgent deadline, I'd much rather work until the early hours than even think of getting up at the crack of dawn as Hilary suggested. That said, I think I work best in the afternoon - children at school, dogs walked and me awake - at last!
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Sandro C
Local time: 11:10
English to Georgian
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Very much a night owl - can work from 10pm to 6 am and sleep till the afternoon .. this works best for me... does not always have a chance to arrange my day this way, but if I could I would always opt for it...
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Lisa Nottmeyer (X)
Spain
Local time: 09:10
Spanish to German
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| In the morning .. or night | Jan 23, 2008 |
Sometime when I need ALL the hours I can get to finish a translation, I get up at 5 a.m. and work until 7 before taking my kids to school and continue afterwards.
Due to the silence I can really concentrate on the translation and during these 2 hours I normally get done a huge part of text or use them for a tricky or boring part ...
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