Ok, that was just scary.
In terms of hair though, I often mourn the fact that I cannot grow mine long. Well, I can, but the stage between "really short" and "cool and long" is "fugly". And that's a rather long stage to go through. The problem is that my hair has so many whorl points, and is so straight, that basically I wind up having very nice, but unmanageable hair pointing in every single direction. If it reached critical mass, the weight would handle that, but until then, it would just look dumb.
Which is a pity, because my hair grows hella fast. Except in critical places, like the junction between beard & stache.
~kov.