Disclaimer: Not mine.
The first piece she writes for the magazine isn't her best. In hindsight, it could probably have withstood another read-through and little more tweaking. Still, it's a solid piece, strong even, and more importantly, it's hers. It isn't that she hasn't seen her name in a byline before--obviously she has--but this is different. This is everything she's wanted and worked for, this is her name 10 point Arial Narrow, an actual paycheck and crappy benefits, and call her sentimental, but she wants to share it with everyone who matters.
Logan matters. And she would really like to share this moment with him.
Only that would require contacting him, and she's pretty sure she's the last person he wants to hear from. Which, okay. Fine. She gets it, she turned down his proposal. That's a big deal, she's not discounting that. But she's twenty-two, fresh out of college, and she doesn't think it's all that strange or unusual to not be ready for forever quite yet. The whole thing blindsided her, and she's still a little unsure about why it had to be all or nothing, and why he got to be the one to make that decision. If she thinks about it long enough, she finds herself annoyed, and then angry--at him, at herself, at the entire situation, even at how absurd it is that she can't just pick up the phone and call him and talk to him and be with him. So she tries not to dwell on it all that much. Besides, what's the point? It's done, it's over, they're over, and if she had to decide tomorrow, she'd still make the same decision. She's not sorry for that.
What she is sorry for is that Logan's not here, because he's missing this, and she's missing him, and this was never the way it was supposed to turn out.
For what it's worth, I don't think Rory was stupid or wrong or selfish in saying no, and I don't think Logan doesn't deserve her; I do think that, despite his intentions to the contrary, his proposal was poorly planned/written (a public proposal? seriously?) and that his ultimatum was unwarranted and unfair.