This is why I simply sleep during the day: if you wake up and appear after everyone else starts "closing up shop" (around 3-4pm usually) then there is no way for them to fill your head with their "crap"; the secret is that it is absolutely imperative that you go to sleep before they start waking up (which has been a bit hard recently as I am working with someone now who lives on the other coast and wakes up early enough that they can sometimes catch me before I commit to going to sleep at 6 or 7).