as of today, there are 125,000 of you. this is a huge, crazy number, almost inconceivable --- so, of course, my first instinct was to try to make it a little more conceivable by collecting some information. some of the following questions are demographic in nature. some of them are questions I would ask you if we were hanging out. all of them are things I have genuinely wondered at one time or another about the people who so generously engage with this blog, who have given me so much to read ...