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I was up very late last night.

I went to bed at 4 a.m. What was I doing? I was playing video games. Ah! I got Civilization 5 the game Civilization 5 and it's a really fun game and I was just

started playing it I probably started playing about 10 o'clock at night. I'll just play a couple hours, go to bed at midnight.

I'm playing and playing and playing and I get sucked into the game.

You know how this happens when you really, really, really

focused on something, and you're completely focused on that

and not thinking about anything else.

All your concentrations on it.

It's easy to lose your feeling of time, right?

We say time flies in English. Time flies. Time flies when you're having fun.

It's an idiom. Time flies when you're having fun. Well, yeah, kind of it does.

Because suddenly I got up to get a snack and go to the bathroom.

I thought it was maybe, I thought I was a little late, maybe it was about one o'clock,

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