It is entirely possible that dinner conversations would be as bland as bland could be without Nicole. She's definitely someone for whom you should think carefully before asking how her day at work went. She spends most of her day cleaning up other people's messes and by messes, I'm here referring to their tendency to get into horrible accidents and break major parts of their bodies. Nicole's a trauma surgeon.
She also has a soft spot for birds and other feathered ilk (presumably, if an alien species were discovered to be not birds, yet feathered, she might make friends with them, or I might have to rewrite this).
She, like several other members of the Petting Zoo, likes to dig around in the dirt.