Select the sentence from the excerpt that best
shows that the narrator is very distracted by
the rejection letter he received
i showed alma the volunteer wing, which
was really just a room with a few lockers,
a microwave, and a lot of large posters
with rules and cautionary messages. she
shadowed me on that shift, and together
we delivered food trays, chatted with bed-
ridden patients who didn't have visitors
that morning, and carried out a number of
fairly tedious tasks. i forgot alma's name
three times and had to apologize.