No matter how many times Jane is the center of attention, it never stops being a little awkward, though one-on-one beats a lecture hall full of grad students any day. Her career is where her passion lies, though, so it's relatively easy to switch gears into rambling about it. "Well if academic conferences decide to start back up, I'll be spending a lot of that time on the road, like I used to before. There's usually a lot of stuffy old professors to butter up for funding, if nothing else. The rest of the time, I move around to wherever outer space is being weirdest. Happens a lot more than it used to since Thor showed up - that's kind of how we met, honestly."

She gestures vaguely with the sandwich, needing something to do with her hands. "I'm from New Mexico originally. It's a state in America with deserts great for stargazing, not a lot of light pollution to drown out the sky, so you can observe a lot more than you can in a city. I was out there studying atmospheric anomalies when - sorry, I mean weird weather behavior," she corrects herself, adjusting for Amelia's benefit, "the night I met Thor. It turned out the thing I was studying was a manifestation of an Einstein-Rosen Bridge, what Asgardians call the Bifrost. I'm kind of Earth's foremost expert on that now. That and the Convergence."