Freaky stuff on Mars

Blackout last night, as yall know.
Freaky.
Well, as it was, like, midnight and a half, and it was jet black out, I figured, hey, why not break out the old telescope? No light pollution, and they say Mars is really close this time of year, might catch a glimps of the Angry Red Planet.
I zoomed my little lens in on the Arean star.
I almost passed out in horror.
I could SEE the CANALS.
You know how in the olden days there were the maps and everything of canals on Mars? http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/images/marscanals.jpg
I saw them! Seriously!
I was looking around the southern hemisphere, because I've heard that Olympus Mons is really cool looking, and I was hoping maybe to see some of these wierd volcanoes everybody's been talking about. And, as I was looking around, I saw... well, it was like a crack opening up int he martian surface, and there were all these weird lights and shadows inside, and I sorta looked further up, and there were flashes of light all over the surface, at the intersections of the canals, then it closed back up and that was it.
So weird.
Anyways, I went to sleep after that. I was probably just seeing things. Oh well.
Mood: Exhausted
Listening: "The Planets Suite: Mars, Bringer of War", by Gustav Holst
Yearn For: The sweet release of sleep.