In which *LOUD SCREECHING NOISES*!!!

Embo told me she’d heard that an Oregon dairy might be opening a cheese shop in Walla Walla. I immediately went online and got my Washington state food handler’s card and updated my resume with the Wisconsin cheese course I recently completed.

Then I went to the dairy’s website, found their contact information, and sent them a friendly email with my resume attached.

THEY REPLIED. I REPLIED BACK.

THEY’VE ALREADY OFFERED ME A PART-TIME JOB BASED ON MY RESUME AND OUR EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE! And they totally want to meet the first week in July to discuss more!

They definitely have a cheese shop in Milton-Freewater, and they also do the Walla Walla farmers’ market. I don’t know if the Walla Walla cheese shop is real or just gossip, but:

I already have a job!

My current fantasy is that we move to Walla Walla, I train in Milton-Freewater while my better half looks for (and ideally finds) work (so he can drive me to and from training), and then I get to work in the new Walla Walla cheese shop, pairing delicious cheeses with local wines, and I don’t have to buy a car! HOW GREAT WOULD THAT BE?!

If the WW storefront is just gossip, I might have to become a car owner, which would be meh, but hey: CHEESE SHOP JOB. They actually make cheese, too, so I could learn about cheese-making and affinage.

I’m terrifically stoked right now, and totally ignoring all the fucking packing we need to do!