Don't be so hard on yourself. You can still do plenty.

[He sits down, taking a sip of his coffee, one thumb idly running over his fingertips. It's a nervous habit he picked up once thread started sprouting from them and even though he knows it doesn't happen randomly, he can't stop checking if there's some residue there.]

... I feel like there's so much to talk about I don't really know where to start.