Semicolons (If I call it that will anyone read it?)

I noticed in my last post that I used a lot of semicolons. Perhaps I should have declared in my profile that I'm a geek for punctuation. I'm taking an professional editing class and I fear that I creep into 'serial comma use' as my teacher calls it quite regularly and happily. I'd like to think I'm using my commas and semicolons correctly, if generously. Maybe that could be another aim of this blog - raise the internet's semicolon count (maybe I'd need to start one first; it could be an annual thing like the cherry blossom count in western Canada). You may not believe this, but I generally try to restrain my 'advanced' (pretentious?) punctuation use. Perhaps I'm getting more comfortable with blogging so I let myself go a little in the last post. I'll try to rein myself in a little more in the future, maybe.