I've been in the darkroom too long

After the process of developing a print, which includes soaking light exposed paper in a series of chemicals for predetermined amounts of time, you let it dry. After it's dried, it curls up. You gotta put it in a 300 degree paper press in order to flatten it. That's what I've been doing for the past 40 minutes, and my fingers are hot. I was going somewhere with this I think.
Maybe what I'm trying to say is that I feel like paper. I tend to curl up even when I want to be flat. Becoming flat is hot, and even though paper isn't skin, heat still hurts.