In Nessel’s telling, before the game she attended a tailgate party, where she “thought it seemed like a good idea to eat two Bloody Mary’s, since as long as you put enough vegetables in them, it’s practically a salad,” she wrote. “As it turned out, this was not a brilliant idea. Also, I might be a terrible bartender.”

Nessel said she started feeling sick at the game. Friends encouraged her to leave — “so as to prevent me from vomiting on any of my constituents,” she wrote — and helped her up the stairs and into a wheelchair. After being driven home, her wife provided water and Tylenol “for what she knew would be a skull-crushing hangover the next day,” she wrote. “(Best wife ever!)”

“I am human,” she wrote. “Sometimes I screw up. This was definitely one of those times.”