My Beard's in it's eleventh week

My beard has reached week eleven and it's still growing. It's started to get long at the front and the bottom is looking increasingly raged. I'm actually getting used to the feel of it and slightly less prone to looking at it all the time - although I've had a beard for ten years the look and feel of a bigger beard on my face has been strange and completely different from the usual short stubbly beard I normally go for.

There are all sorts of things I've noticed as a result of growing the bigger beard: I feel:

* Calmer,
* More masculine (I guess it goes with the territory)
* More authoritative (people seem to listen more)
* More huggable
* More teddy-bear like ;}}}
* Fitter
* More assertive
* More successful!

Some of this may be in my mind but that counts for something anyway! They are some pretty big claims and I can't prove them - but who's going to argue with me?