Angst

To anyone who reads this and cares to tell me, I'll pose a question now:

Why do you read this blog?

This isn't rhetorical, this isn't just there to make you think.  Anyone who has ever read this, I want to know why you read it, or why you still do, or what made you read so much as these first few sentences.  So please, answer me.  Tell me in a comment (you can do it anonymously if you so desire), send me an email, tell me in person.  Just let me know why you read this.

I've had over 1600 page-views in the past five months that blogger has been keeping track of blog stats, and I want to know why I got as many as I did (well, ignoring the fact that half of those were easily mine).  Is it mostly people who know me and whom I told to read my blog?  Or is it people who happened to run across it and found my life interesting (I wish).  

Part of my curiosity in this matter is the sort of blog-reader I personally am.  I think I mentioned this in my first post, but I will reiterate it here: I love blogs.  People I know very well, people I don't know at all, people whose names I can match up to faces but don't actually know at all, anybody.  I will find some blogs and I will check them pretty much obsessively.  A couple of my friends use blogger too, and they have asked me, "so all of those little spikes in my stats every day...was that you?"  Yes, yes it was.

So I guess, knowing myself and my fascination with blogs, I want to know if anyone else shares this fascination, or if people read this because they know me, or if they read it because it pertains to them, or if they read it because watching someone's bitterness and angst makes them feel better about their own life.  I don't much care what the reason is, I just want to know.  So please, do me a favor and answer the question, in one way or another.