Bugs like my ears, and more soaring

Every time I leave the physics building, wherever I go a cloud of gnats buzzes around my ears. I don't feel them anywhere else on my head - only my ears. I probably look pretty strange to passers-by, grabbing and rubbing and scratching my ears as frantically as I do. It's not easy to look natural trying to swat a tenacious cloud of bugs away from my head, I've found.

And just when I thought the soaring may have taken a hiatus...