Even if this one isn't quite what you're looking for, hopefully it helps with searching for things in terms of materials and weight! Best of luck with the jacket shopping!

I have two colors of a jacket pretty similar to this one (but without a hood) that do well with mid-30s, wind, and rain, imo fit business casual, and I bet could work into mid-20s with the right layering. And they've been through the wash plenty without issues! www.landsend.com/products/fea...

I've also heard good things about Columbia and LLBean for jackets (I have Columbia sweaters and fleece that I *love*). For all three brands, definitely watching for their sales will help with the price, and if you have a credit card with rewards, sometimes you can also get gift cards to them too!

How winter does it need to hold up to? What temperature? Wind? Rain/snow? My winter jackets of various weights are mostly from Lands End, which is a bit spendier than Target or Walmart, but definitely better quality, and most if not all are washable.

I haven't had a cat in an apartment before, but had a roommate with one (undergrad apartment-style dorm) and have cat sat multiple times for a friend in an apartment. Neither cat has been an escape artist. They may come to the door and curiously sniff, but weren't interested in making a run for it

My recent surprise package was the pin for backing Endlings on Kickstarter, but that fit into my mailbox (I assume, my roommate was the one who got the mail that day)

One of the local coffee places in my grad school town also does sno cones!

I only already knew this information because my grandmother was a funeral director and my mom works for the department of transportation, so the overlap of their knowledge of funerals and road rules converged on me learning this when I was like 10

The Merlin one I'm in is surprisingly active! It's actually made me think about getting back into writing fanfic but it's been so long since I did a proper rewatch of the show so I feel like I've gotta do that before I start writing too much 😂

I am appropriately devastated by this and have promptly shared it with my merlin discord server so that they too can be devastated

*grabby hands*

My queue time keeps going back and forth between less than a minute and 112 minutes 🙃

It's back onto the restock notifications game for me now 😔

Saaaaaame

Reminds me of when I lost my keys in the tea cupboard in one of my undergrad dorm/apartment things

Yeah, unless it's very certain shades or an accent color on red, I also don't look great in it. Also all of the rivals of both of my colleges (undergrad and grad) have orange as one of their main colors so it's also just a bad idea during football season in general and therefore not in my wardrobe