LJ: On an unrelated note...

I probably should have mentioned this when it first occurred to me, maybe a week ago.

I'm officially over Michelle. She started confiding the gory details of her new relationship with me last week, and I realized I was rooting for her and helping her see that she probably shouldn't stick her neck out too far too fast.

And there was this awesome moment where we finally acknowledged last fall, realized that the other was truly and meaningfully "okay" with where things have settled, then went back to the chaos of our lives.

I had been worried that this new guy might be rebound material for her. (She broke up with her boyfriend of 4 years last month, and fairly quickly got back out on the scene, then sort of threw all of her eggs into this one guy's basket soon after.) She was exhibiting all the signs of either a deep and meaningful rebound or a deep and meaningful beginning to something more profound. Because of the circumstance, I assumed the former.

Then, after that cool moment of recognition between us, I realized something. I was her rebound guy. It was what she needed to realize there was more for her than Bill. I was that more at the time, and it was great and all that. But it had a bigger purpose than fulfilling any sort of desire I had.

That's pretty much that.