Flashy graphics and witty words develop on my screen after hours, days and months of planning. Not planning on my part always, but planning on the part of a group of interns and staff members who have hearts for teenagers. These TFC people that I speak of put on their armor each day and step into the middle and high school battlefield to create other TFCers.

Me, I get to sit miles away clicking around on a computer. I don't go on long van rides to rural areas of the country, listening to voices scream lyrics or screeches wail from prank victims. I don't have my bed duct taped to a roof or my pockets filled with rocks because some little seventh-grade girls thought it would be funny, (which it was). Instead, I am the designer behind the images these teens stare at as they await, enjoy and reminisce about TFC Camp.

Once again, for I think the fifth year, I will be putting pixels to paper for TFC Camp 2012. No, I am not going to give anything away yet. You will just have to wait and see what the team comes up with. :) But, I promise, you will collide with my work at some point.

The fact that you do get to bump into my work is because TFC had faith in me. They gave a girl who just likes to make stuff a chance to work on real tasks and enjoy doing it. Sure, I have a job now and have done a bit of designing since I started creating for TFC, but those TFC people are just so nice to work with every day.

Everything I do for them is always good enough. And when you work in the cut-throat, everything-can-always-be-better world of journalism, that atmosphere is like ice cream on a sizzling summer day. Time slows down, the stress vanishes and I enjoy creativity and my computer again.

Just wanted to thank TFC for overblessifing me with letting me design for them. There is a reason I keep coming back, asking for more.

Above Photo: While I don't always make it back for those two weeks of fun each summer, I always remember the great time I had and friends I made.