PHOTO: Me, with my LXN Beard.
Never before have I grown a full beard. Prior to this run, the longest I had ever gone without shaving was three weeks. This beast on my face has taken six weeks (the election plus two weeks prior, since the campaigns actually started before the writs were dropped).
Now that I've spent six weeks growing it and nurturing it, I'm sort of attached to it. It's like a child, except I don't go to jail if I kill it. So, really, it's more like a Chia Pet.
The bottom line is, I think I'm keeping it, at least until we find out whether or not we're going to get a federal election.