My lips were super chapped yesterday for no reason.  It’s not particularly hot or dry here.  Thinking back on it, my lips probably got sunburned when I was running on Wednesday without a hat.  I just thought of that completely logical explanation this morning and yesterday I was quite concerned.  So concerned that I actually googled “oral herpes symptoms,” “what does mouth herpes feel like,” and “could I have gotten herpes from dropping the cap to my water bottle at the gym and putting it back on without washing it?”

A super coating of Vaseline last night seems to have cured me…of the imagined mouth herpes, not my hypochondria.  That’s just in remission until I decide that this pain in my thigh is gout and the only medically responsible thing to do would be a self-administered amputation.