I've really started just throwing whatever edible ingredients I have in the fridge together. For breakfast? Egg and Stuff. For dinner? Sandwhich and Stuff.
If you hate the second book in a triology should you bite the bullet and just finish it? My heart is telling me no, but my OCD is telling me Yeah yeah yeah
I don't know if it's online, but a short essay(?) by David Sedaris called "Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol" is one of the funniest things I've read. Read it if you can.
Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was far too good for a writer who proved they couldn't write a sequel. It's a shame the last 25 pages were the worst thing ever.