Strange Assignment for ALL HighEdWeb Attendees

Everyone, my coworker’s name is Tonya.  This is what she looks like:

She is attending HighEdWeb and I am not.

All of you reading this post, who are also attending the conference; your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make Tonya’s experience at HighEdWeb as awkward and strange as possible.

A little back-story, followed by your assignment instructions:

I initially asked Tonya to do one simple thing at the conference: Find Anthony Dunn and give him a hug, specifically for making this cartoon.  For all the cartoons.

Then I realized that I was selling this whole hugging idea way too short.

Your task at is to find this Tonya person and give her a hug.  Awkwardly.  Out of the blue.  Like you’ve known her forever.

Why?

Tonya has the unfortunate task of working with me.  She needs your support and condolences. You’ve read my blog occasionally, from a safe distance.  While Tonya on the other hand,  ..she’s had to put up with my sarcastic, pessimistic remarks in person, without being able to magically scroll or click away.  She deserves your sympathies.

She needs a hug.

So in the same manner that you complied with the request to vote for my nephew on that stupid kid karaoke contest, (he won, btw, and is going to disneyland ) you’ll comply with this special request as well.  The only difference being this request includes an awkward hugging component, and perhaps takes more commitment and courage than selecting a radio button and clicking “vote”.

I’m confident that the numbers are on my side.

Feedburner tells me there are 71 of you that actually subscribe to my feed, and I’m willing to bet at least 20 of those 71 are going to be at the conference, milling around with Tonya.

So seriously, give Tonya a hug. And then say something like: “I’m sorry you have to work with Drew”. Report back to me here on this post in the form of a comment.

Your other task is to attend Kyle James’ analytics session and act like you’re sleeping.

I kid.  I kid.