I'm supposed to be working about 30% time on a project at work. That translates to about 12 hours. This project has two meetings a week and the meetings almost always take 2 hours each. That means that out of my 12 hours/week on this project, I'm already spending 1/3 of it listening to people debate what conferences we should apply to (rather than, you know, what work we should do to make something conference-worthy)