Lads, I need your advice because I'm stuck and I don't know what to do.

I am currently still waiting for my application to be processed for a postgraduate research project which I submitted ages ago. I've spoken to the applications team at the university last week and they told me they would chase it up and that I will receive an email when the decision has been made but they did not give me any definite dates for this. Yes I am pretty late in the game now for applying which is partly because I have already been messed about by another university who just never got back to me at an earlier stage in the application. Naturally I am apprehensive and need something to happen because all I'm doing now is sitting at home neeting.

What I will need to do if they either reject my application or want me to start next year is to find work which in my profession would involve moving. The moving part can be pretty straightforward as I can just move to the city of the university but finding work will be difficult when I don't know if I am soon to be going into full-time academia. Should I email a local specialized recruitment business explaining my situation and see if they can find me part-time work in the meantime or should I keep my uncertainty secret and say I am looking for full-time work?

I just want to accrue thousands of pounds of debt and add to the sum of human knowledge. I never knew I could slip so easily between the cracks on this.