well, it's over.

i stand by what i said before:

      "i like the math in this talk;
      it's a good story."

i just wish that it was someone else who tells the story of the schoenflies problem and its various incarnations.

i love telling stories, but i'm no good at storytelling.

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as you can imagine, the usual process happened:

1. days before, i am excited about giving a talk and the mathematics involved. i think of how cool the theorems are.
   
   
2. the day of the talk, i'm nervous and worried that something is amiss, that it's all wrong, and that i'll forget to say subtleties that matter to me.
   
   indeed, i will forget to say them. i always do.
   
   
3. after the talk, i realise that i've forgotten again: i hate giving talks. it never goes as well as i would like.

oh well. at least my friend (who talked at the same time, in a parallel session) won most of the audience. truth be told, i wanted to hear what he would say.

sometimes talks do get in the way of a conference .. \: