I envy the podcasters, the writers, the people with the gumption and drive who can keep up with a 40 hour a week job and then add another 40 plus hours to it for the entertainment of their fans and the sole pleasure of creating.  People who take moments out of their already jam packed schedule and post updates that are more than recycled drivel.  I envy them because try as I might, I just don’t have that drive.  I envy them, call it a sin, a deadly one at that, but there it is.

If you haven’t gotten the gist of my intent yet, let me spell it out plainly.  It’s been two weeks since there’s been a post on the site at all, and even longer since it was something meaningful and not random movie trivia.  I simply don’t have the drive for it anymore, not while I’m working 40 hours a week and being out of the house for at least 10 hours a day for five of seven days.  And those last two, the only thing I want to do is kick back with a book, a podcast, some new music and not think about work, of any kind.

Am I shutting down completely?  No, not at all.  I’ll still be throwing the random, brilliant and blatant advertisements up for my favorite podcasters, but I make no promise of a schedule.  I’m on pins and needles with anticipation for Personal Effects Dark Art and still have at least a nine month wait - I think.  Then there’s Contagious due out this winter and whatever Mur, Nathan, Tee, Pip, Edward, Nick and many others have up their sleeves.

Time Well Wasted was my job while I didn’t have paying employment, now it’s just too much for me.  Through it I have gotten to know and do things for some fantastic people with brilliant stories to tell.  These would be the podcasters I follow around like some random rabid fangirl.  And while I’m not pulling the plug completely on the site, I’m pulling in the focus and will continue to write about the podcasting community in my own time.  I’ll still be following these people like the random, rabid fangirl that I am, what can I say, feed me a good story and I’m addicted.

As for the rest of it, I’ll post what things I have lingering in my drafts over the next week and we’ll see what happens from there.  In the meantime, there’s not much more to say.  I want to thank everyone, from the bottom of my heart, for reading and enjoying the site, for letting me be part of their advertisement régime, and for producing some fantastic content.  It’s my hope that I might still be welcome when I ask if I can help them out with a bit of advertisement and review, and maybe a hug or two if I can ever get to one of their events.

More than anything, and I’m not trying to separate anyone from anyone else, I owe a heartfelt thank you to JC Hutchins and his amazing fans for helping me and my family out during our hardship this summer.

Like I said before, I’m not completely shutting down, I think to do so would break my heart, so I hope you won’t remove us from your feeds.  I’ll still be around on Twitter and I’ll post there when something pops up here.  I just can’t promise a regular posting schedule anymore and for that I apologize.

So stay tuned…  I may post something brilliant at any time.