parasitegirl | (Opens jacket to reveal a lining filled with zills)

I am not a big fish in the Tokyo scene. That being said, I am smiley-mc-joyface when I'm in an audience and for some dancers and dance students who know me I often get thanked after shows for that.

The sweetest though? I've got enough of reputation for knowing my way around a set of zills that I sometimes get zill newbies coming to me after they've danced to tell me that they were nervous to play in front of me but were relieved to see me smiling as they did it.

I got that last night.

"Of course I was smiling! I love seeing dancers getting up there with zills!"

Which is, admittedly, safe praise.

I never thought I'd become some sort of zill representative.

Add to that the fact that at city hall yesterday a teacher from one of the Jr highs came to pick up a bag of two sets of loaner zills from me. My co-workers weren't surprised bu the transaction but they did ask me if I've started recruiting teachers for my bellydance army.

The truth is that one of the music teachers has found a piece for the band kids she teaches but it has a part with finger cymbals...and she'd worked with me at an elementary school before and knew exactly where she could score a set...because there isn't an elementary school in this town that hasn't seen me with a set of Zills....because I also use them for class control.

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