So, I will confess, this week, I watched "Dancing with the Stars" for the first time. Kelly Osbourne, the foul-mouthed daughter of the famed Ozzie had decided that "Dancing" was a way to become more of a lady and make her parents proud. She really did a lovely job performing the foxtrot, but the show-stopping moment (for a softy like me) was seeing her proud parents just looking completely blown away. Her mom was straight up weeping. Precious.
I just had a moment like that. This weekend Joe and a lot of other poor Newhouse students are working a lot and sleeping very little during the annual (thank God it's only once a year!) Fall Workshop. During this Thursday through Sunday stress-fest the students descend on a town near Syracuse and create photo/multimedia/video stories about whatever they can find. They all hole up in a building (in this case a firehouse) and consume large quantities of caffeine and pizza while editing, capturing, (maybe gently weeping in some cases) and basically working their poor little butts off.
As a way to thank the community they descend upon, there is a "Community Slideshow" where the subjects of the stories, the students and whomever else can come and see some of the work that has been done thus far. We arrived a little late (I was tagging along with Joe and some others working on some more touches for their stories), so I didn't see everything. When we snuck in the photos of the various students were going by. Suddenly, the photos went to videos. Joe had the second video. The audience, who up until this point had been, for the most part, silent aside from a few titters, erupted. People were laughing at all the right moments and just having a great time. And then, when his video ended, the entire audience applauded. Right in the middle of the show. It was amazing. The only time the audience applauded that night, aside from after the show ended, was for my husband's video. I am shamelessly bragging. I get to, I'm his wife. I am so incredibly proud of him, I want everyone to know. It was just so satisfying and overwhelming to hear this audible reaction to the way I feel about my amazing, talented Joe.
Now, I know you all probably have a lot of questions for me like, Sara, what's it like to be married to someone famous? I'll just say, I have always known that wherever Joe was (and is) going in his life would be an adventure. I'm just glad I get to be part of it. Even the bits that include me guarding camera equipment at a high school dance. (Dang, some of those dresses were SHORT.) And from what I can tell, there's gonna be some awesome stuff coming down the pipe.
