exorbiant amounts
I think you mean "exorbitant", and there's a sentence in here that has a repeated "might". Just Ctrl+F for "might" and you'll find it. Beyond that, I think the dialogue portrayed here is a bit outside what someone would put in their seminar, I think people would rather just summarize the information that was said instead of writing out people as if they're characters. For example:
"So, what comes out of the door?" I asked, feeling the doorframe with my fingertips.
This is prose. In a summary of events, someone would probably write instead:
So I asked them what came out of the door.
Then the rest of that interaction could be summed by something like: "They told me that nothing comes out of the door, but that it opened to a dark ages cathedral in another dimension, housing a community of communist flower people."
Stuff like that. But, besides these gripes, I like this. It's cute, in a kind of way. I feel like if you followed this researcher around in episodic fashion, the tone would be that he always keeps his head, in a kind of lackadaisical sense where he doesn't ever feel too much in danger, and always safely makes it out while chaos collapses in around him. +1 because I like that tone, and the ending line got a chuckle.
