Heck yeah I love ooc chat! Some of my chats get as long as the rp itself haha xD I feel the same way about waiting for someone to post. There's no reason to overthink it or assume anything other than they have real life things to attend to, as do we all. 

Speaking of getting to know your rp partner, where are you from, partner? x) I'm in North Carolina myself, but not from here originally.