"can't keep my eyes from the circling skies / tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit I"

A question for the dudes (or anyone with access to a dude willing to answer):

When you grow a beard, how long does it take to get through the itchy stage?

I have three weeks' growth now, and still not past that, and I gather from a couple comments at work that for some men this sounds particularly long. I've only done it once before, and IIRC it was about a month. So, data. How long for you?

---L.

Subject quote from "Learning to Fly," Pink Floyd.