Search for a Method

I haven’t written in a while and there are a number of things I’ve been intending on writing about, but at the moment all I can think about is my incredibly swollen arm. Why is my arm swollen? This weekend, we went to Tokyo (that story later), and stayed in a cheap youth hostel. By the time we left yesterday, I had two little bites on my arm. Sometime yesterday afternoon I realized that they had gotten even more swollen and now they’ve nearly doubled the size of my arm:

At first I thought the culprit was a spider, but after talking to my Japanese boss, I found out that it was most likely a “buyo” - some kind of Japanese gnat. A quick google search revealed at least one other person that has had a similar experience, although my arm is starting to look even bigger than his ankle. Apparently, the more you get bitten by them, the less the reaction. I’m really hoping that my body figures out how to deal with this kind of bite quickly because having a puffy arm every time one of these little guys gets hungry is going to suck.