Ill and III are the same in this font

I have come down with a nasty flu; we think that I became a carrier a couple of days ago, gave it to my g/f who then mutated it and gave me it back. I HATE being ill because it hits me so hard; I am so used to being healthy that it takes me backand I just cannot take it. I hurt and ache... blah.

The worst thing is that I was feeling so motivated to write... I really wanted to be able to sit down and knock out some work, and I just can't. Too ill!

The reason that I was so motivated was that one of my friends gave me an intial opinion about my novel, and it was positive. He's the first person to have actually given me any comments (apart from my g/f), and his liking the novel really spurred me to believe that I could be a writer; I thought that if one person likes the novel then, maybe, more people will; that if one person could get into the worlds I create and enjoy being in them that I might be able to do it for more than one person.

But all of that creative power has merely bounced around in my head. I have refined a couple of ideas that I've been toying with, but that's been in between the headaches, tiredness and all of the other symptoms. It's almost not fair... but oh well.

Oh, and :-F is my ill face.