I fell in love with the semi-colon sometime last year. So much so that I overuse it. I always have to run a pair of sentences through my head to see if I really should use a semi-colon: He loved her; she was ambivalent. If the pair of thoughts I want to put together work with that rhythm, then I'll use it. Unfortunately, that's how I want a lot of my stuff to be read. I like the ascending-descending tone it gives to the pair of thoughts.
What happened to my beloved double-space after the end of a sentence? It seems that the single-space has taken its place as standard. My blog program actually takes out double-spaces.
I love you, double-space; please don't leave me.