Marching band has been the biggest pain in my ass all year, and the years barely started (For marching band its been almost 4 months so I guess it has)

This is the first year were using props in our marching show. We have 3 in the back row, each 6 feet tall, 3 in the middle, each 4 feet tall, and then 3 in the front, each one being 2 feet tall. Its really complicated and so far its taken us anywhere between 3-5 minutes to set them up (We have 5 minutes to set up and 2 minutes to get off the field)

Well, the other day during summer band (maybe Friday or Thursday), Parents were helping us take the props down before we headed home. Well, I told the guy that was helping me (one of the adults) "We need to pick it up, and then place it on the wheels carefully so as not to bend them" (the wheels are like, 4 or 5 inches in diameter and should not be used to hold these things up and the chances of them breaking are very high given the weight distribution and of course, the overall weight on the wheels themselves AND how close to the outside of the platform they are - literally only about an inch or three off) and of course, we pick it up, but he immediately tries to throw his side down as the top is a bit top-heavy (trying to make it more sturdier involved making the top part of the platform heavier so the dangers of it breaking when the rifles stand up there and toss their stuff is lower).

Well, in the process of this, his side drops, and my side comes down, but im trying to hold it up and it ends up slamming onto my left knee (for those of you that dont know, my right knee gives me problems most of the time when I run for a while or do physical activity of any sorts for a while) and so now both of my knees are hurting pretty bad.

Of course, I have to march this 8 minute show and with not one, but two knees hurting, its not going to be very fun.

Another thing is that my headaches are back (woo) and they don't seem to be giving me any sort of leeway whatsoever (ever since I got kicked in the head by a horse back when I was little, Ive had headaches nearly all the time and at worse, migraines that don't seem to be letting up at all) so it becomes quite difficult to concentrate.

This year is the most stressful thing im going to sit through, mainly because of the high expectation classes I have but also because this is the most important year for college and stuff like that.

I'm ranked 67 out of a class of about 280 and that's not nearly good enough for my liking or what I feel I need in order to achieve my goals. I really feel the need to step it up this year, and I highly doubt I can move 40 placements in order to achieve me goal of top 10% (Roughly about 25 or 27 places I was told)

Ive got to suffer through Physics, Pre-Calculus, US History, and then English 3, all Advanced placement in an attempt to get my overall high school point average up (our end of the year total average for a class is multiplied by 1.1 for taking AP or Pre-AP classes) and my 4 point GPA is somewhere around 3.393 and im not even close to being comfortable with that.

All in all, this year is going to be highly stressful and I doubt Ill be able to survive