Tuesday 2nd September 2014.

Today was a busy enough kind of day.  Up at 9am and prepped a few bits for dinner this evening as I was going to be out and about most of the day.  Made some hm soup, veggie, and some bruschetta and then brought doggie for walk down to Tesco for some nice crusty bread to serve the bruschetta on.  When I got home headed out to Bray to visit mum and also to return the laptop that I had purchased about 10 days ago.  Not happy with it and Windows 8, it was so SLOW, full of viruses, registry errors, crashing and not responding............... enough of that.  Thankfully the kind Customer Services people were happy enough to refund my money as I start my MA on Monday next and I need a new computer, as this one, a Dell about 5 years old, is on its last legs.  Despite this I'm still using it.  Good OLD DELL :)  Just as I wrote that the font size went a little funny...............

Tomorrow is a bit of a special day, its my Graduation day and I'm schedule for 5.30 pm, then there's a reception afterwards so should be a nice day.  Getting the hair done in the morning and meeting my best friend for a bit of lunch, visited mum today so won't be going out to her tomorrow, have to be up in UCD by 4.45 at the latest.  DD1 did my colour for me tonight - cannot have any greys in the graduation shots !!

Will post some pics tomorrow night.  Here's a blurb on what 'cum laude' means when graduating.

"Cum laude" is a Latin term that means "with honor." This term is used during graduation to distinguish college students who have met certain high academic standards. The term often appears on a degree or diploma.  Graduating cum laude means that a student has maintained a certain grade point average during undergraduate study. Cum laude is one of three honors that graduates can earn. A higher honor is magna cum laude, which means "with great honor." The highest honor is summa cum laude, which means "with greatest honor." This system of honor is typically used in the United States, Canada and a select few European nations.

Courtesy www.google.ie

Namaste

Marie.