Confused is probably a fairly good diagnosis of the Doctor, most of the time. Confusing, certainly.

He tsks into the phone. He doesn't want to speak to anyone else. Twisting a particularly stubborn valve with both hands, kicking a lever up a few notches with one foot, he loses the phone and has to scramble in the TARDIS console to retrieve it. There. "The Doctor. I need to speak to Astrid." He's abrupt and cursory, uninterested in talking to anyone else.