Rosa got so drunk that she walked into a building where bands practice and pretended to be a sanitation worker. She opened doors where people were playing music and swept with a broom.

Before the famous writer was famous he was obsessed with Rosa. He offered to fly her across the country and let her stay in his apartment. He said she didn’t have to work, he would to paint her toenails, and that she could break every dish in his house.

She drank next to a guy at the bar with a motorcycle jacket. She demanded to be taken to Ocean Beach. She ran backwards in the sand, jumped and rolled. He came home with her and the last thing she remembers is the brown triangle of his beard.

Rosa went home with a guy with long red hair. She slept in his apartment and woke up in the middle of the night and noticed he was gone. He reappeared and she asked him what he was doing. “Cleaning the bathroom for you,” he said with a smile. He called her on Thanksgiving and ended the conversation, saying, “God bless you.”

Whenever she would run into Omar at a bar he would ask her to meet him in the bathroom. She called him “the evil Peruvian.”

Rosa met a guy in LA and invited him to her friend’s birthday party. She got drunk and lured the man outside to the parking lot. “I have created this dance specially for you,” she said. Rosa proceeded to dance around on the asphalt. The man went back inside the bar and said, “You had better go deal with your friend, she’s crazy.”

Rosa drank so much one night that she fell down onto her knees and believed she had an epiphany.

She walked drunk around New York City and saw someone with a bag of pierogies from her favorite Ukrainian diner. She asked for one and he invited her upstairs. They made out but then it was time to go so she hurled a vague insult. Rosa pulled her camera out of her purse sticking it close to his face so he could feel the burn of the bulb flash. After pressing the button she walked out the door, down the stairs, past alcoves full of collapsed baby strollers in bright colors. She took a picture of that, too.

Sometimes friends would follow Rosa around and try to make sure she didn’t do anything crazy.

She drank with her friends and met a man that everyone said looked exactly like Lenny Kravitz. A woman coming out of the bathroom said, “Why am I here, if you are getting all of the attention from the one gorgeous man in the bar?” His name was Manuel and he was a semipro surfer from Brazil. Rosa left the bar with him and he took her to the headquarters for a skateboard company. She took piles of ball bearings out of boxes and threw them all over the floor. They made out next to the invoices and boxes of rubber wheels. She drew a picture and left it in the place of a picture she took off the wall and put in her purse.

Rosa drunkenly walked into her neighbors’ apartment while they were entertaining and asked if she could borrow a cup of sugar.

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