WAXING CRESCENT
The semicolon appears to be partly but less than one-half illuminated by the reading lamp. The fraction of the semicolon's dot that is illuminated is increasing like a snowball that grows as it rolls. This semicolon appears before the First Quarter Semicolon and after the New Semicolon. The crescent will grow larger and larger every day, until the semicolon looks like the First Quarter Semicolon.