Helping Kendra

One of the friends I made while living in The Netherlands was a fellow conservatory student (in audio engineering) named Kendra. Although Kendra was born and raised in Alaska and then went to school in Oregon, both her mom and grandmother live right here in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, meaning that every once in a while we get to catch up when she's here for a bit.

Unfortunately, Kendra's grandmother (with whom she's staying) recently got hurt and is currently needing a good bit of supervision, a role that Kendra was willing to take up for her two months in the ATL, despite its implications on her day-to-day life. One thing Kendra needed to get done for her grandmother was to sort out her grandmother's storage facility, taking inventory of all of her belongings, both to try to sell them and to have a decent archive of all relevant recent financial records.

So, Kendra asked me if I would be willing to help her sort all of this out, and although I was initially a bit hesitant about the whole endeavor, I finally ended up going to help her today, and despite my fears, we were done with the first half of our work (which we were planning to split into two days) within a couple hours...easily twice as fast as either one of us was predicting it would take. Afterwards, Kendra took me out for lunch at a local Mexican restaurant, where we essentially caught up after months of being on different continents. Overall, it was a good time, despite the mild work, and I'm looking forward to hanging out with her at least once more before she moves to NYC for an internship in a few weeks...