Who I Am

I’m Julia, the Watermark Intern of the Diocese of Spokane. I grew up in Silver Spring, a Maryland suburb of DC, and I went to Swarthmore College, in the Philadelphia area. I moved here for this internship in mid-August, and I’ll be here till mid-July. People often ask me whether I’d been to Spokane before moving here. The answer is, I’d been to the airport once.

My whole family are math and science people, and in good familial tradition, I was an engineering major in college. That lasted until the spring of my Junior year, at which point, I realized that I was much happier in my religion classes than in my engineering ones. I became a religion major, with a minor in engineering.

I was brought up in the Unitarian Universalist (UU) church. I’d gone to church regularly growing up, but stopped going so regularly when I got to college. When my grandpa became quite ill the fall of my Junior year, my friend told me I needed more religion in my life, so she brought me to the Episcopal-Lutheran campus ministry group. That was my first real introduction to the Episcopal church. I liked the group so much that I kept going even after my grandpa recovered, and the spring of my Senior year, I got confirmed as an Episcopalian.

In my job here, I work part time at the Diocesan Office, part time at the Cathedral, and part time at Holy Trinity. At Holy Trinity, we’ve got a program where we invite our neighbors in for a free dinner twice a month, and I help with that, mostly by working in the kitchen and by delivering fliers advertising the dinner to various social-service agencies in the area. At the Cathedral, I work with the youth. At the Diocesan Office, I do pretty much whatever anyone tells me to do, which has involved helping prepare for convention and presently involves some work with the website.

I like cheese sandwiches. They’re what I usually eat for lunch. They’re tasty, they’re cheep, they’re quick to make, and they pack well. I like grilled cheese sandwiches, too, but they take a little bit more work to make and they don’t pack quite as well.