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I agree with ColonelSpecial: practice saying no. I used to have this same problem of getting involved in activities which piqued my curiosity but got in the way of more important things in life.
Now, I can say no when I know I have something high priority coming up. Still, occasionally I'll pack my schedule full because at times, it's important for me to feel productive and accomplished. This feeling can trump the desire to get enough sleep or to have down time to browse the web, hang out with people, or just think to myself.
I try to see the value in the choices for each decision I make. This kind of helps on those times when I feel like I'm going crazy. I tell myself that it's part of my plan to have hectic days that give me more experiences at the end. Right now I'm doing the opposite and enjoying the value in this--that is, keeping an open schedule so that I can have time to myself--but I think I could pick up a hectic lifestyle again and appreciate what I'd get out of that.
If you find you're really overstretched, don't be afraid to tell people that you bit off more than you could chew. Your friend could probably find someone else to type up her notes if you couldn't do it.
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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