Are you incipient?

Yeah.

I saw that in a document today and thought "what a word!". Incipient.

I went to dictionary.com and found out that incipient means something that is beginning to exist or appear.

So when you walk in the door at work and your colleagues ask "how are you today" you might say in response "I believe I have an incipient cold."

Or you might be the first to spot some incipient growth on shrubs in your garden, heralding the onset of spring.

You get the idea. Incipient. I'll be sure to force-fit it into a few conversations tomorrow.