Good weekend, nervous week

I'm feeling better today, but yesterday was a little tough for me and I got really panicky about calling people on the phone and writing a couple of stories. Once I start writing though and feel like I'm on to something the anxiety goes away, but for some irrational reason I still get anxious about calling people on the phone. I think I'll get better once I get used to it, and I think I've just been expecting too much of myself while I'm still adjusting. One of our reporters found that the mayor had submitted an application for an adult entertainment club under his wife's name, but then withdrew it. It's a great story

The weekend was great. I had a good time at Stonehenge, Bath and Salisbury on Saturday. It was really foggy when we got to Stonehenge in the morning, and that sort of added to its mystique. The site itself is smaller than I thought, although the stones are huge, but they fence us off a ways away from it to prevent vandalism. The other interns on the trip and I took a lot of pictures, and afterwards I thought, "Well, you can only take so many pictures of stones."

From there we ate lunch at a nice pub in Salisbury, and then on to the 700-year-old Salisbury Cathedral. The steeple's friggin huge, and they house a copy of the Magna Carta and the country's (I believe) oldest working mechanical clock.

Bath was beautiful. The town is in the valley and partially on the hillside, and it looked wonderful coming down the hill to see the whole city. The actual Roman Bath tour was pretty interesting, complete with a tasting of water coming from the natural spring. The architecture is the town is gorgeous, and even though there are a lot of chain stores there now, they've retained the Georgian style contruction for the most part.

I met up with a few of the interns who went on the trip with me later that night, and we went to a techno dance club. Luckily we got in for free thanks to a little BSing by one of the interns. All I can say is that the drinks were expensive (£5.50 which translates to about $10 for a rum and coke!), the lighting reminded me of those Japanese cartoons that cause seizures in young children, and British people dance just as bad as I do! But I still had a good time dancing and getting to know a few of my fellow interns better, and I'm glad there are others who are just as curious about exploring the city and its nightlife like I am.

Better get back to work, I got a deadline to meet.