Okay, that just about makes 'I work with a super secret government agency with wormhole technology' sound boring. It's probably just the fact that Era's phrasing sounds...well, for lack of any better comparison, like something out of a book Amanda thinks she would have read as a teenager. She sits up, resting her arms on her legs without much regard for how that angle might be showing her chest if anyone with an interest walks by.
"I don't know if that just sounds really impressive from my perspective since ninety-nine percent of the time I was just in an office trying to make machines do what I wanted them to do with math, but...that sounds really impressive." She laughs at herself, shaking her head. "Did you choose to do that? Or--ah, if I'm really crossing some cultural boundaries, tell me to shut up or change the topic, okay?" She doesn't have the same training all the field teams in SGC did, so she still feels like she's a step away from being that naive idiot who sticks their foot in the mouth and upsets the being who could rip her apart without blinking. But oddly, it's not as terrifying as it would have been before. Just embarassing.
She nods thoughtfully, watching as Hedy bounces away a bit, happily pattering through the sand. "I don't think I could do that; I try to be really..rational, but I think I'd probably get too attached." Considering how stupid she as back on Destiny, she doesn't think that's a stretch. She'd been there to work, not...what she'd done. "It's a good thing there's...people like you who can."
She does manage a laugh though, nodding. "Yeah. It's ridiculous, he would--he'll wear things like that with a vest when it's sweltering out. I guess it's a good thing, since it means he had layers on when he got stranded, but it's still crazy. But," she grins, a bit self depretiating. "The kinds of people who want to spend their lives studying a culture most of the world doesn't even know existed knowing they can't tell anyone who doesn't have security clearance tend to be just a little...eccentric. And that includes me, I guess."
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"I don't know if that just sounds really impressive from my perspective since ninety-nine percent of the time I was just in an office trying to make machines do what I wanted them to do with math, but...that sounds really impressive." She laughs at herself, shaking her head. "Did you choose to do that? Or--ah, if I'm really crossing some cultural boundaries, tell me to shut up or change the topic, okay?" She doesn't have the same training all the field teams in SGC did, so she still feels like she's a step away from being that naive idiot who sticks their foot in the mouth and upsets the being who could rip her apart without blinking. But oddly, it's not as terrifying as it would have been before. Just embarassing.
She nods thoughtfully, watching as Hedy bounces away a bit, happily pattering through the sand. "I don't think I could do that; I try to be really..rational, but I think I'd probably get too attached." Considering how stupid she as back on Destiny, she doesn't think that's a stretch. She'd been there to work, not...what she'd done. "It's a good thing there's...people like you who can."
She does manage a laugh though, nodding. "Yeah. It's ridiculous, he would--he'll wear things like that with a vest when it's sweltering out. I guess it's a good thing, since it means he had layers on when he got stranded, but it's still crazy. But," she grins, a bit self depretiating. "The kinds of people who want to spend their lives studying a culture most of the world doesn't even know existed knowing they can't tell anyone who doesn't have security clearance tend to be just a little...eccentric. And that includes me, I guess."