Soothing my bites

Mosquito bites suck. They itch like crazy and of course, my lack of self-control and unnaturally thin skin has led to the total scarring of my legs. My family regularly asks me if I'm embarrassed by my scarred legs. Uhh..not really? And then they ask me again and again and even strangers I meet on the street ask me what happened to my legs. Of course, then, I'm starting to feel a bit self-conscious about them (but they itch so bad! and they don't look that bad to me). So to prevent further scarring and awkward questioning from family/strangers (which, btw, is such a Vietnamese thing to comment on others' embarrassing physical ailments, right in front of them), I've employed a new method:

Putting my Berkeley mind at work people...