No i stało się. Polska pojedzie za granice do Niemiec na mundial w następnym roku. Ostatnio było marnie, z Korea i z Portugalia. Co prawda teraz skład jest inny i pozostałości tamtej drużyny nie sa szczególnie widoczne. Ale jest to osiągnięcie samo w sobie, mundial to żadna oczywistość a tu dwa razy pod rząd. Oby było dobrze..

Absolutely exhausted today, suspected it's yesterday's soccer practice that put a real dent in me but after coming out of the pool I can barely feel my legs. There's soccer again tomorrow, should I go?

2005 total: 7.1 km
since 2004: 27.6 km

2005 total: 5km
since 2004: 25.5km

I found this issue of a Jaunary 2005 Scientific American lying around the house, open on page 70, an article entitled "Exploring the self-esteem myth". (Yes, that's the online printer-friendly version, also happens to be the reader-friendly version with less ads in it.)

Basically, it attacks our intuitive perception of how self-esteem affects our lives with some scientific studies. Among other things, research shows basically no correlation between self-esteem and academic performance. Most social skills also tend to fall into that group. Another myth put to bed is that of bullies having low self-esteem, doesn't seem to be the case.

But one aspect closely connected is happiness, extensive studies show that high self-esteem correlates with happiness, so we still need it, just not in the way we thought.

I was playing around with amarok today when I realized how good it is for id3 tag handling. So I started cleaning up the tags in my music library, fixing typos in artist names and such, amarok makes this all very quick and convenient. Also categorizing into genres and just killing dead weight. I don't know how long I've had this song on my harddrive but it's time to say goodbye to "Gary, Gary, Gary, Gary Pallister". Among others.

Organized.