What is your lightbox routine?

I have the Lumie brightspark, which I have just bought from John Lewis.

I sit in front of it in the evening whilst I read or am on the Internet. This can be anything between 30mins and 2hours. I try to not use it after 11pm.

In the morning it is a bit more difficult. I am rushing around then and there is no way I can sit in front of it (because I simply can't wake up any earlier). However of the 60mins it takes me to get ready for work I spend 55mins in my (very large) bedroom. The best I can do is to stand the lightbox on a table and look at it as often as I can whilst doing what I need to do. I'm assuming that this is almost useless wrt SAD - but surely it has to be better than nothing?

What lightbox routines do other folk have?

Hi Bagpuss. I do have a dawn simulator - however because I live in a brightly-lit street I go to sleep with an eye mask on. Otherwise I don't fall asleep. So... sometimes it comes off whilst I sleep and I am woken up by my DS, but sometimes it doesn't (and the DS alarm wakes me up), and sometimes I am facing in the opposite direction and its alarm wakes me up. It's a bit hit and miss really.

I do find that just having the lightbox on as I get ready helps. I don't feel the need to sit directly in front of it. But thanks for the suggestion.